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Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (American)

Currency:USD Category:Antiques Start Price:11,500.00 USD Estimated At:22,000.00 - 28,000.00 USD
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (American)
<B>JENNIE AUGUSTA BROWNSCOMBE </B></I>(American 1850-1936)<BR><I>Tea in the Garden</B></I><BR>Oil on original unlined canvas<BR>20-1/4 x 29 inches (51.4 x 73.7 cm)<BR>Signed lower right: <I>Jennie Brownscombe</B></I><BR> <BR>Provenance:<BR>Quester Gallery, Connecticut<BR><BR>The American painter Jennie Brownscombe has been called a "Norman Rockwell of her era" owing to her skillful drawing, attention to detail, and the nostalgic mood of her imagery.<BR><BR>Brownscombe's early life can be regarded in many ways as the inspiration for the imagery she favored in her paintings for most of her career. Born in a log cabin in rural northeastern Pennsylvania, she was the only child of William Brownscombe, an English-born farmer, and Elvira Kennedy, a direct descendant of a Mayflower passenger, who encouraged her daughter to write poetry and draw. Brownscombe won her first awards as a high school student, exhibiting her work at the Wayne County Fair. When her father died in 1868, Brownscombe began supporting herself through teaching, creating book and magazine illustrations, and selling the rights to reproduce her watercolor and oil paintings as inexpensive prints, Christmas cards, and calendars. More than 100 of Brownscombe's works were distributed this way, spreading her images into homes throughout the nation.<BR><BR>A prize-winning student at the Cooper Institute School of Design for Women and the National Academy of Design, both in New York City, Brownscombe became in 1875 a founding member of the Art Students League, where she later served on the faculty. Her oil paintings met with immediate success, as both her subjects (sentimental genre pictures and scenes from colonial American history) and her style appealed to prevailing Victorian tastes. Brownscombe studied art in France in 1882, spent the winters of 1886 through 1895 in Rome, and exhibited her pictures there and in London, New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia. She continued working until virtually the end of her long life, completing her final large oil painting at the age of 81 after recovering from a stroke.<B>Condition Report:</B> Overall good condition.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Requires 3rd Party Shipping (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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