Oil painting on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower left. Additionally inscribed, titled, and initialed by the artist on the back of the canvas. 36x61 cm (14¼x24"), in old wood and gilt gesso frame; frame measures 54x78 cm (21¼x30¾"). Exceptional original oil painting of Santa Barbara, California, in the mid-1870s, capturing the sleepy seaside town, with bucolic hilly meadows and scattered trees in the foreground. The artist, Marcus Mote a resident of Ohio and then Indiana, is notable and well respected, but best known for portraits and paintings on religious themes. The present painting, as noted in his inscription on the back of the canvas, is "From a sketch by Sue Spence in Winter of 1876-7." The title as above is also on the back, and within a large heart, "Presented to Danl. S. Anthony, by his friend M.M. Richmond Ind." With a photocopy or carbon of a letter from Joseph A. Baird, Jr., to Mrs. Elizabeth Hay Bechtel of Santa Barbara, California, dated Feb. 5, 1972, stating that when he was recently in New York "one of the major dealers in American paintings... showed me a painting of Santa Barbara. It is utterly charming, and in my opinion a real period document. As you well know, the number of historic paintings of Santa Barbara is small indeed. The artist is Indiana born [actually Ohio] and resident...; just what exact connection he had with Sue Spence, who sketched the original scene, is not yet clear. Seen in 'reality', the painting has great quality ; and Mote, the artist, is certainly an above average later Victorian painter...." There is also a receipt for the painting from Maxwell Galleries of San Francisco, dated 8/25/79, for sale of the painting to M.P. Mckenna of Conway New Hampshire, and two copies of an appraisal by Maxwell for the painting, dated August 30, 1979, addressed to Mr. and Mrs J.D. Thompson of Santa Barbara, California. The Thompsons were evidently the final destination, since it is now consigned by a member of that family. Due to the size and/or weight of this lot extra shipping and/or handling charges may apply.
Oil painting on canvas. Signed and dated in the lower left. Additionally inscribed, titled, and initialed by the artist on the back of the canvas. 36x61 cm (14¼x24"), in old wood and gilt gesso frame; frame measures 54x78 cm (21¼x30¾"). Exceptional original oil painting of Santa Barbara, California, in the mid-1870s, capturing the sleepy seaside town, with bucolic hilly meadows and scattered trees in the foreground. The artist, Marcus Mote a resident of Ohio and then Indiana, is notable and well respected, but best known for portraits and paintings on religious themes. The present painting, as noted in his inscription on the back of the canvas, is "From a sketch by Sue Spence in Winter of 1876-7." The title as above is also on the back, and within a large heart, "Presented to Danl. S. Anthony, by his friend M.M. Richmond Ind." With a photocopy or carbon of a letter from Joseph A. Baird, Jr., to Mrs. Elizabeth Hay Bechtel of Santa Barbara, California, dated Feb. 5, 1972, stating that when he was recently in New York "one of the major dealers in American paintings... showed me a painting of Santa Barbara. It is utterly charming, and in my opinion a real period document. As you well know, the number of historic paintings of Santa Barbara is small indeed. The artist is Indiana born [actually Ohio] and resident...; just what exact connection he had with Sue Spence, who sketched the original scene, is not yet clear. Seen in 'reality', the painting has great quality ; and Mote, the artist, is certainly an above average later Victorian painter...." There is also a receipt for the painting from Maxwell Galleries of San Francisco, dated 8/25/79, for sale of the painting to M.P. Mckenna of Conway New Hampshire, and two copies of an appraisal by Maxwell for the painting, dated August 30, 1979, addressed to Mr. and Mrs J.D. Thompson of Santa Barbara, California. The Thompsons were evidently the final destination, since it is now consigned by a member of that family. Due to the size and/or weight of this lot extra shipping and/or handling charges may apply.
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