William Hart served as the first president of the Brooklyn Academy of Design upon its founding in 1865 and was a founder and president of the American Watercolor Society. Today, his paintings can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, High Museum of Art, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

More information about this painting...

Provenance:

Private collection

With Vose Galleries, Boston, inventory no. 21456, July 1964

To collection of Robert C. Vose, Jr., Boston, Massachusetts, December 1964

With Vose Galleries, Boston, inventory no. 29876, March 1990

Returned to Robert C. Vose, Jr., Boston, Massachusetts, January 1993

By descent to Mr. Vose’s son and daughter-in-law, Abbot W. and Marcia L. Vose, Boston, Massachusetts, 1998 to 2012

With Vose Galleries, Boston, inventory no. 35849, April 2012

To private collection, Chatman, Massachusetts, May 2012 to present

Inscription:

1. (in pencil on frame liner verso, upside down) 390
2. (in pencil verso of panel) #390

Labels:

1. Previous Vose Galleries label, inventory no. 29876
2. Previous Vose Galleries label, inventory no. 35849