American & European Art

Provenance:

(Probably) William S. Chanley, 1848 (as Mountain Stream and with dimensions "about 21 x 30 inches")

Chapellier Galleries, New York

Private Collection, Beloit, Wisconsin

A.J. Kollar Fine Painting, Seattle, Washington, by 2005

Sold: Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Greenwich, Connecticut, October 20, 2005, Lot 29

Private Collection, Garden City, New York, acquired at the above sale

Sold: Ford Art Auctions, Lewes, Delaware, May 26, 2019, Lot 39

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Literature:

William S. Talbot, Jasper F. Cropsey, 1823-1900, PhD dissertation, New York University, 1977, pp. 48-49; 338-339, fig. 18, cat. no. 19, illus. (as Highland Streams)

"Found in a Closet-W.T. Richards Tops Shannon's Sale at $215,100," Antiques and The Arts Weekly, November 11, 2005, p. 61

Kenneth W. Maddox, Anthony M. Speiser, Jasper Francis Cropsey: Catalogue Raisonné Volume I, 1842-1863, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, 2013, p. 50, no. 96, illus.

Lot note:

This lot is the only known extant painting that Cropsey painted in Scotland, probably near Luss on the west bank of Loch Lemond, where he and his wife stayed for three weeks. The artist also executed two other paintings during his 1847 stay, View near Luss in the Highlands of Scotland, and Ruins of St. Anthony's Chapel near Edinburgh, both commissioned by the American Art Union for $300.