Sale 2513 - American Art, June 13, 2019

3 c WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS Two landscape oils. Monhegan Island, Maine , oil on board. 142x240 mm; 5 3 / 4 x9 1 / 2 inches. Initialed in oil, lower left recto * View of the Coast, Donegal, Ireland , oil on board. 135x232 mm; 5 3 / 8 x9 1 / 4 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto. Ex-collection the artist Fidelia Bridges (1834-1923); acquired directly from the artist; thence by descent to the current owner. [2,500/3,500] 4 c WILLIAM TROST RICHARDS Two landscape oils. Forest Clearing , oil on panel. 135x235 mm; 5 1 / 4 x9 1 / 4 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto * Winter Landscape , oil on panel. 140x238 mm; 5 3 / 4 x9 3 / 8 inches. Signed in oil, lower left recto. Ex-collection the artist Fidelia Bridges (1834-1923); acquired directly from the artist; thence by descent to the current owner. [2,500/3,500] 5 c AGNES DEAN ABBATT Near Barnstable, Cape Cod . Oil on canvas, circa 1890. 400x825 mm; 15 3 / 4 x33 inches. Signed and titled in oil, verso. Ex-collection private collection, New York. Exhibited “62nd Annual Exhibition,” Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1892, with the label on the frame back. Abbatt (1847-1917) was born in New York and early on decided to become an artist. In the 1870s she attended Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design in New York and pursued figural art. She left the Academy after a year to study landscape painting (1874-75) under James D. Smillie and Robert S. Gifford. She became well-known for her landscapes and was only the second woman elected to the American Watercolor Society. She is listed in American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies (Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore, 1897), in which the current painting is cited as one of her most notable works. [3,000/5,000] 5