Powder Point, Duxbury, Massachusetts
Signed lower right: J. Ambrose Prichard 1898
Description
Born in Boston in 1858, J. Ambrose Pritchard was a distinguished watercolor painter celebrated for his New England landscapes and coastal scenes. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris under Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre before returning to Massachusetts, where he painted throughout the state’s shoreline communities and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. A prominent member of the Boston Art Club and Boston Society of Watercolor Painters, Pritchard enjoyed considerable success, culminating in a sold-out 1903 exhibition of 180 paintings. He died in 1905 following a stroke.
Provenance
Private collection of Mr. and Mrs. Abbot W. Vose, Duxbury, Massachusetts
Inscriptions
1). (top right stretcher, red crayon): T2730A
Labels
1). DUXBURY / FREE LIBRARY / [(handwritten)] Bumpus Gallery – Summer 1987 / Duxbury / Massachusetts
Exhibitions
Literature
Condition
Very good. Wax lined. Three minor spots of inpaint visible under UV light. Two along the sky and one on the green below the shed.
Frame Details
Description
Born in Boston in 1858, J. Ambrose Pritchard was a distinguished watercolor painter celebrated for his New England landscapes and coastal scenes. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris under Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre before returning to Massachusetts, where he painted throughout the state’s shoreline communities and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. A prominent member of the Boston Art Club and Boston Society of Watercolor Painters, Pritchard enjoyed considerable success, culminating in a sold-out 1903 exhibition of 180 paintings. He died in 1905 following a stroke.
Provenance
Private collection of Mr. and Mrs. Abbot W. Vose, Duxbury, Massachusetts
Inscriptions
1). (top right stretcher, red crayon): T2730A
Labels
1). DUXBURY / FREE LIBRARY / [(handwritten)] Bumpus Gallery – Summer 1987 / Duxbury / Massachusetts
Exhibitions
Literature
Condition
Very good. Wax lined. Three minor spots of inpaint visible under UV light. Two along the sky and one on the green below the shed.
