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William Sidney Mount American, 1807-1868 Country Lad on a Fence [Sketch from Nature; Boy Getting Over a Fence, Throg's Point, New Yo.. American, 1807-1868 Country Lad on a Fence [Sketch from Nature; Boy Getting Over a Fence, Throg's Point, New York], 1831 Signed W. S. Mount. (lr); signed Wm. S. Mount. and dated 1831. on the reverse Oil on panel 12 x 13 7/8 inches Provenance: The artist Asher B. Durand, New York, by 1832 Robert Gilmor Jr., Baltimore, by 1833 William Gilmor (1815-1870), Baltimore, nephew of the above, by 1863 Gilmor Sale, 1863, , from which purchased by Robert Gilmor IV (1833-1906), Baltimore Miss Margaret Painter, Owings Mills, Md. Fanny L. Pearre, Baltimore County, MD, after 1931 Thence by descent to private collection, Baltimore, circa 1973 Exhibited: New York, National Academy of Design, 1832, no. 93, as Sketch from Nature, Country Lad Resting on a fence, lent by Asher B. Durand New York, American Academy of the Fine Arts, 1833 (possibly) Baltimore, Maryland Historical Society, 1848 (as Boy Getting over a Fence, Throg's Point, N.Y. Literature: The Whitney Journal (notebook maintained by William Sidney Mount from 1848-1857), collection Whitney Museum of American Art, undated entry following one dated November 14, 1952, mentions "Boy resting on a fence-painted in the open air - Stony Brook - year 1831." The Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, The Seventh (New York: Clayton & Van Norden, 1832), no. 93 National Academy of Design. Second Notice, The New-York Mirror, 9.49 (June 9, 1832), 391 William Sidney Mount to Robert Gilmor Jr., Nov. 15, 1833, Dreer Coll., Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Robert Gilmor Jr. to William Sidney Mount November [18], 1833, as printed in Edward P. Buffet, William Sidney Mount A Biography [articles from The Port Jefferson Times from Dec. 1, 1923-Jun. 12, 1924], (New York: 1927) "The Picture of a Boy on a Fence. Painted by Mount-engraved by Adams," The New-York Mirror 12.18 (Nov. 1, 1834), 137, illus. Robert Gilmor Jr. to Jonathan Meredith, Apr. 2, 1844, Meredith Papers, MS. 1367, Maryland Historical Society Catalogue of Paintings, Engravings, & co. at the Picture Gallery of the Maryland Historical Society. First Annual Exhibition (Baltimore: John D. Toy, 1848), no. 31 Robert Gilmor Jr. to Susan Smith Gilmor, May 2, [1848], tipped into Ellen Gilmor (Mrs. Thomas G.) Buchanan, Memoirs of Robert Gilmor by Himself, 1813, Copied by Ellen Gilmor for Thomas Gittings Buchanan Jr., The original in the possession of Robert Gilmor 5th, 1908, MS. 1729, Maryland Historical Society Robert Gilmor's Inventory & List of Debts, Jan. 29 and Feb. 6, 1849, Inventories (originals) Baltimore City, Register of Wills, Maryland Hall of Records, Annapolis Catalogue of the Very Valuable and Original Oil Paintings, Being a Portion of the Collection of the Late Robert Gilmor Also, Marble Statuary, Engravings, and Rare Works, To be Sold by Public Auction, at the Dwelling of Mr. William Gilmor, No. 47 Franklin Street, On Tuesday Morning, Nov. 10, 1863 (Baltimore: F. W. Bennett & Co.), Bartlett Cowdrey and Hermann Warner Williams, Jr., William Sidney Mount 1807-1868: An American Painter (New York: Columbia University Press, 1944), 15, no. 12 (as Country Lad on a Fence, unlocated Alfred Frankenstein, William Sidney Mount (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1975), 25, 249, 468 Private collector, email to the author, May 22, 2011 Lance Humphries Collection Deborah J. Johnson William Sidney Mount Painter of American Life, NY, 1988, pp. 28, 118-119, 128 (endnote 61) as unlocated, illus. (engraving by Joseph Alexander Adams, 1803-1880, after the painting and entitled Boy on a Fence after Country Lad on a Fence) C Estate of Elizabeth Randolph Pearre
Frame rubbing. Abrated from an early restoration, cleaned in 2012. The area around the signature is not touched. Fine craquelure throughout. Area in the sky is thinned from cleaning. There is some possible paint residue in the sky. The boy's clothing is thinned. The lower part of the landscape is still intact.