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Title |
Winter Scene, Pennsylvania |
Place of Origin |
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
Artist or Maker |
Birch, Thomas (1779-1851) |
Date |
1835 |
Materials |
Oil on Canvas |
Dimension Details |
Canvas Height: 18" Width: 27" Stretcher Height: 18 1/4" Width: 27" Framed Height: 26" Width: 25" |
Description |
"Winter Scene, Pennsylvania" by Thomas Birch (1779-1851) is one of the painter's most successful winter compositions, depicting a medium-high eye-level view of a snowy rural landscape with a solitary figure in a sleigh drawn by two horses in the foreground. Created in an oval format, it incorporates Birch's familiar elements of broken fences, bridges, farm buildings and snow-laden trees. This painting is unusually colorful with a distant sunset reflecting against the white fields. The inscription "Tho Birch 1835" is lightly inscribed on the brown embankment in the lower left. Born in Warwickshire, England, Birch moved with his family at the age of 15 to Philadelphia where he assisted his father William Birch, an artist who specialized in miniature and enamel portraiture and engraving. Thomas's keen interest in landscape painting led him to specialize in that genre by 1811. During his lifetime, he was popular with collectors, critics, and his fellow artists. |
Provenance |
Descended through the Shinn-Haddock and Farr families, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mrs. W. Jackson Blackman Robert Trump, R.T. Trump & Co., Inc., Fine Antique American Furniture and Works of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the account of Mrs. W.J. Blackman Sold to The Dietrich American Foundation, 1969 |
Object Name |
Painting |
Object ID |
6.8.599 |
Search Terms |
paintings |