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ERNEST ALBERT (American 1857-1946)

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Silver Start Price:1.00 USD Estimated At:1.00 - 1,000,000.00 USD
ERNEST ALBERT (American 1857-1946)
<B>ERNEST ALBERT (American 1857-1946)</B></I><BR>Winter Thaw and Stream, Silvermine, Connecticuit, c. 1925<BR>Oil on canvas<BR>30in. x 25in.<BR>Signed lower right: E. Albert A.N.A<BR>Inscribed on stretcher: The Waterfall/ Ernest Albert<BR><BR>Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1857, Ernest Albert displayed artistic talent early on and received the Graham Art Medal at age 15 while studying at the Brooklyn Art Institute. His early success as an illustrator, shows purely in this rare detailed (perhaps French or European) Gem. Albert went to St. Louis in 1880 and five years later moved to Chicago. In 1892, he was involved with the Colombian Exposition in Chicago and helped found the American Society of Scenic Painters there. At the pinnacle of his career in 1905, he began to withdrew from theater work and turned more and more to canvas painting until he eventually devoted all of his time to painting landscapes of Old Lyme, Connecticut, Monhegan Island, Maine, as well as a few scenes on the West Coast. He was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1922. His artwork is housed in the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, CT and in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. <BR><BR><B>Important notice:</B> Heritage usually auctions material at the rate of 200-250 lots per hour. On some occasions eBay Live bid software or the Internet may not be able to keep up with the pace of the auction. We recommend placing a realistic absentee bid now as insurance to avoid disappointment. Occasionally the auctioneer may eliminate or reject an eBay Live bid, and the auctioneer may also reopen a lot after the close of the eBay live bidding (usually because we missed an audience bid), and may reject your bid even if it shows you as the winning bidder. By bidding via eBay Live, you agree that Heritage may award the lot to another bidder at its sole discretion under the circumstances described above or any other reasonable circumstances. Since eBay bids are not shown to us until we open the lot on the floor, we treat those bids just like floor bids. In most cases the floor responds before the eBay bid is presented to us, due to Internet lag time, so for consistency we have made it a policy that floor bids are always considered first over tie eBay live bids. Also please note that all Heritage lots purchased through eBay Live carry a 25% Buyer's Premium. Please make sure you read the Terms and Conditions before you bid. <BR><BR><B>IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT RESERVES:</B> Heritage now divulges all reserves on its web site 7 days before every auction. If you want to know whether the reserve on this lot has been met, and if not, what the reserve amount is, please visit this lot page on the HeritageCoin.com web site, or email: bid@HeritageGalleries.com </span></font>