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Samuel Lancaster Gerry

Samuel Lancaster Gerry (1813 - 1891) was active/lived in Massachusetts.  Samuel Gerry is known for Landscape, still life, portrait and genre painting.

A leader of the White Mountain School of painting in the 1840s, Samuel Gerry painted in the Hudson River style and also was among the Hudson River School artists who painted in that geographical area.  He also painted occasional views of the Hudson River Valley including in 1858, a painting titled West Point, Hudson River, and Sailing on the Hudson (undated).  In addition, he was noted for portrait, genre and animal subjects, and sometimes he copied the works of other artists such as several by New York artist George Harvey (1800-1878) and by William Henry Bartlett (1809-1854). 

According to Shannon's auction catalogue of 10/24/2002: Samuel Gerry and James Burt were close artistic friends and lived across the street from each other in Boston.  In 1836, they collaborated on a series of Boston views for the engines of the Boston Fire Company.  Over the years, the two would collaborate on landscapes that became engravings, es   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2890 characters.]  Artist bio

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Keywords and Quick Facts for Samuel Lancaster Gerry


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art MethodArt MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Botanics, Plant Life
  • Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
  • Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
  • Folk Art, Folk Lore
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
  • Landscape with Cattle, Sheep or Other Farm Animals
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
  • Pastoral Landscape
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Still Life
  • Townscape, Village Scenes
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Adirondack Mountains
  • Boston Before 1900
  • England, Great Britain Before 1900, London
  • Europe
  • France Before 1900
  • Hudson River Valley, New York
  • Italy Before World War I
  • Lake George, New York
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
  • The Isle of Shoals-Appledore Island
  • White Mountains, New Hampshire
Art Association
  • American Art Union
  • Boston Art Club
  • Boston Artists Asssociation
Art Teacher
  • Benjamin Jean-Joseph Constant
Chronology
  • Early 19th Century Before Civil War
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
  • Hainsworth Collection
Added Description
  • Genre Specialty
  • Landscape Specialty
  • Miniature Specialty
  • Portrait Miniatures
  • Self Taught, Autodidact
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition of Art Association
  • American Art Union-
  • Boston Art Club-
  • National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
  • Boston Athenaeum

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