Hudson Valley Paintings Auction Ending 5/21

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20thC signed "Frederick Tordoff" (Born 1939). Frame o/c Shad Fishing on the Hudson River scene off Stony Point in Haverstraw Bay. Bio: Born in Whitley Bay on the northeast coast of England where the area has a rich maritime heritage and Fred sketched local scenes and landmarks. Joined the Royal Air Force and served in various locations such as the Outer Hebrides Island off Scotland, in Nicosia, Cyprus and Oman on the coast of South Arabia. Then studied Marine Radio and Electronics in Yorkshire at the Kingston-Upon-Hull College. Hull had a thriving school of marine art and after visits to the Ferens Art Gallery and the Hull Whaling Museum he was motivated to paint marine oils on canvas of the Humber keels and sloops which plied the inland waterways and the Hull whaling ships which voyaged northern and southern oceans in search of the whale in the days of sail. He joined the Cunard Steamship Company a a Radio & Electronics Officer and traveled the world on many types of ships including freezer ships, general cargo ships, container ships, tankers, dive support vessels and passenger ships. Fred painted during the long sea passages and exhibited his work with a local art group and galleries in the North of England. After studying the watercolor paintings in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, local art galleries and auction houses began painting marine watercolors. Whilst serving in the South Atlantic between Ascension Island, Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands and Montvide, he was commissioned to paint some of the ships then operating in that area. Recent years have been spent running his art gallery of the River Tyne in the north of England and traveling on Dive Support ships working on subsea oil and gas installations and under oil production platforms in Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Congo, Nigeria, Cape Town South Africa, the South China Sea and many parts of Arabia. Currently residing in New Jersey and painting maritime scenes of the Hudson River, Nantucket / New Bedford whaling ships and the US Northeast coast. His painting are in collections in England, Scotland, Norway Holland, New Zealand, South Africa and USA. Submitted by the artist, November 2003 15.5" x 19.5" sight, 16" x 20"

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Framed o/c "Victor de Grailly" (1804-1889) "Crow Nest from Bull Hill" featured in the Exhibition "This Perfect River-View": The Hudson River School and Contemporaries in Private Collections in the Highlands. The exhibit ran from July 20th to November 25, 2007 at the Putnam County Historical Society & Foundry School Museum in Cold Spring, NY. This painting was featured as plate #36 on page 53 of the 67 page catalog for the exhibition. It also bears the #4 tag from being on exhibit at the Historic Boscobel Home on the Hudson in Cold Spring, NY 24.5" x 29.5" sight, 25" x 30" canvas

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"The Mountain Spring Near Cozzen's Dock" Currier & Ives hand-colored "F. Palmer" lithograph. Rare View. Framed, matted and under glass 10.75" x 15.5" sight, 18.75" x 22.75"

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Framed 19thC o/c View of man fishing in mountains. Unsigned. Possibly Hudson River or Adirondack mountains. A very nice luminist American School nature painting 22" x 36" canvas, 21" x 35" sight

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19thC Edmund C Coates (1816-1871) "Lighthouse near Caldwell's Landing." Signed "E.C. Coates" lower left. Featured in the Exhibition "This Perfect River-View": The Hudson River School and Contemporaries in Private Collections in the Highlands. The exhibit ran from July 20th to November 25, 2007 at the Putnam County Historical Society & Foundry School Museum in Cold Spring, NY. This painting was featured as plate #1 on page 19 of the 67 page catalog for the exhibition. It also bears the #13 tag from being on exhibit at the Historic Boscobel Home on the Hudson in Cold Spring, NY. Bio from AskArt: A landscape, portrait, marine and history painter, Edmund C. Coates lived in New York City during his active period 1837-1872. Brooklyn and New York City directories from those years list him as Edward, Edmund C., E.C. Coates, and E.G. Coates. His paintings include landscapes of Canada and Italy although it is not known if the artist traveled to those countries or if other works inspired the scenes. He also painted in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and, listed as one of the Hudson River School painters, did numerous Hudson River Valley scenes such as Shipping on the Hudson River, 1855. His painting titled Washington's Headquarters at Newburgh, 1867, depicted a popular scene among the Hudson River painters because it was George Washington's headquarters painted against the backdrop of Storm Mountain near the town of Newburgh. Collections holding work by Coates include the New York Historical Society, the New York State Historical Association and the Shelburne Museum 28.25" x 35.25" canvas

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20thc o/c signed "M. Kelly 1961" auction scene at the site of the West Point Foundry School depicting the fundraising event for establishing the Putnam County Historical Society Museum in this historic structure in Cold Spring, NY. (See handwritten note on the back of canvas by the local Cold Spring artist Michael Kelly). Note: The American flag is at "half mast" as it is Memorial Day. Auction conducted by O. Rundle Gilbert who was an Estate Auctioneer who lived in Garrison, NY. Bio from AskArt: Michael Kelly studied at the Art Students League of New York in the early 1930's. He was in Robert Brackmans class and possibly others. He lived for about 50 years on the Hudson River in Cold Spring, New York where he and his wife operated an antiques shop. He sold his paintings in this shop as well. Michael Kelly died in the late 1980's when he was about 80 years old. Source: Information provided by R.J. Schneider. 20.25" x 33.5" sight, 21" x 34" canvas

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Framed 19thC o/b signed "R. W. Weir" lower left "View of the Hudson from West Point." Robert W. Weir (1803-1889). Featured in the Exhibition "This Perfect River-View": The Hudson River School and Contemporaries in Private Collections in the Highlands. The exhibit ran from July 20th to November 25, 2007 at the Putnam County Historical Society & Foundry School Museum in Cold Spring, NY. This painting was featured as plate #24 on page 42 of the 67 page catalog for the exhibition. It also bears the #16 tag from being on exhibit at the Historic Boscobel Home on the Hudson in Cold Spring, NY. Catalog description says oil on canvas. I believe this is an oil on board. Bio AskArt: Born in New York City, Robert Weir became more recognized for his teaching of art than his own paintings. As a youngster, he was befriended by painter John Wesley Jarvis and also received instruction from Robert Cooke, an English heraldic* artist. When he was a teenager, Weir's painting was so remarkable that his canvases sold in New York as the work of the Old Masters*. From 1824 to 1827, he studied in Italy and in 1825 he worked with Pietro Benvenuti in Florence. Later he moved to Rome, where he lived with Horatio Greenough. Returning to New York he set up his own studio. In 1834, he began a 42-year teaching career at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and his pupils included Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E Lee, and James Whistler as well as his own sons, John Ferguson and Julian Alden Weir. He painted subjects from the novels of James Fennimore Cooper and Washington Irving as well as portraits and historical topics. In the mid-1930s, he painted his large Embarkation of the Pilgrims from Delft Haven, in Holland, which was installed in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol Building in 1843. During the half century that Weir was most active in religious painting, other American artists showed little interest in painting religious subjects. Consequently, few paintings of the nature were exhibited at the American Academy of Fine Arts, the American Art-Union, or the National Academy of Design. Weir is believed to have been a "leading practitioner of the religious genre in America during the years 1830 to 1880, when Biblical subjects were unpopular with both artists and patrons. "Weir was essentially an academic painter who continually attempted to associate himself with the European artistic traditions from the Renaissance to his own time, as his religious paintings demonstrate." Source: Kent Ahrens, "The Religious Paintings of Robert Walter Weir," Antiques, April 1973 Boscobel label indicating that this work of art was part of the Exhibit: Home on the Hudson: Women and Men Painting Landscapes 1825-1875" that was held June 7, 2009 - September 7, 2009. . 9.5" x 13.25" sight, 10" x 14" board

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"View of West Point" colored lithograph. A great View showing the parade grounds and the Highlands to the North. A rare scene framed, matted and under glass 11.5" x 18.25"

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Framed 19thC o/b sunset View of Hudson River looking north toward what appears to be Newburgh, NY Unsigned, but probably T.B. Pope who resided in Newburgh, NY, or possibly one of his students 21.5" x 29.25" sight, 22" x 30" canvas

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20thcC Fr. colored Print "Poughkeepsie Landing 1910." S/# "William Muller 101/475," orn in 1937 and lived in New York painting Hudson River scenes and seascapes. . Framed, matted and under glass. . 18.25" x 27.75" sight

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Framed 19thC o/c " View from Garrison" (looking downriver toward the southern entrance to the Highlands.) Unsigned. Featured in the Exhibition "This Perfect River-View": The Hudson River School and Contemporaries in Private Collections in the Highlands. The exhibit ran from July 20th to November 25, 2007 at the Putnam County Historical Society & Foundry School Museum in Cold Spring, NY. This painting was featured as plate #8 on page 25 of the 67 page catalog for the exhibition. Anonymous artist, but a great view with train on tracks helping to date, as the trains started running on the east shore in 1850. . 16.5" x 20.25" sight, 17" x 21" canvas

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Framed 19thC o/c signed "Edmund Darch Lewis" (1835-1910). Hudson river View w/sailboat. Bio AskArt: One of the most prolific and commercially successful American landscape painters of the late nineteenth century, Edmund Darch Lewis rendered crisply realistic images of shorelines, waterways, and rural scenes in the northeast that received popular acclaim during his era. Lewis was born in Philadelphia. At age fifteen, he began to study art, enrolling in a private class with Paul Weber. His initial works were landscapes and marine views, focusing on the Lehigh, Susauehana, and Wissahickon Rivers of Pennsylvania. These paintings were described in the Philadelphia Public Ledger as demonstrating "a tremendous talent, great freedom from tradition," and they "promised a departure from the beaten tracks." Lewis's art was in high demand from the beginning of his career and he established a national following. Although he became best known for scenes of Philadelphia, Lewis also rendered views of New York, New England, and even Cuba. Later in his career, his focus shifted to shorelines of Cape May, New Jersey, and Narragansett, Rhode Island. He frequently depicted schooners drifting in calm waters, churning mills, and hidden cottages. Lewis favored watercolor, but also used oils and gouache. Due to his financial success in painting, Lewis was able to nurture his passion for collecting. He would often trade a group of his watercolors for valuable objects d'art. His collection included a throne that belonged to Napoleon I, a set of drawing room furniture from the Borghese Palace in Rome, and the original sketch for Alexandre Cabanel's Birth of Venus. His mansion in Philadelphia consisted of two connecting houses and additional annexes that were filled with period furniture, china, and decorative arts. Wealthy and admired, Lewis entertained in a grand style, hosting a number of exhibitions and events in his opulent home. Lewis exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1854-69) and was elected an associate of the Academy in 1859. He also showed at the National Academy of Design in New York (1860), the Boston Athenaeum (1858-69), and the Brooklyn Art Association (1862-70). Lewis's work is in several public collections including the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida; Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts; Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, New York; and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 21.5" x 35.5" sight, 22" x 36" canvas

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Framed 19thC o/c View. appears to be from Fort Putnam high a over the Hudson River. Signed with initials "T.P.R."that are believed to be Thomas P. Rossiter (1818-1871). Bio AskArt: Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Thomas Rossiter began his career as a portrait artist but also did historical and religious genre and Hudson River landscapes including Niagara Falls, influenced by his good friends, Thomas Cole, Asher Durand and John Kensett. He opened a studio in New Haven in 1838, and the next year in Troy, New York. From 1840 to 1846, he was in Europe, traveling part of the time with Durand, Kensett, Cole and John Casilear. Upon his return he settled in New York and shared a studio with Kensett and Louis Lang and earned his living from portraits. However, his religious paintings received attention as two of them toured the United States: Miriam and Rebecca at the Wall. From 1853 to 1856, he lived in Paris, and then returned to New York to devote himself to history and religious paintings. In 1860, he built a home and studio in Cold Spring, on the Hudson River, and lived there until his death 11.5" x 17.5" sight, 12" x 18" canvas

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"The Scenery of the Hudson Near Anthony's Nose." C&I full plate. This hand-colored framed, matted under glass Currier & Ives lithograph was part of the exhibit at the Historic Boscobel Home on the Hudson in Cold Spring, NY Exhibit "Currier & Ives on the Hudson" that was held from July 4, 2010 through October 11, 2010. original Boscobel label is on the back. Another great View by Fanny Palmer, the female lithographer that produced many distinctive quality scenes for Currier & Ives during the 19thC 15" x 20" sight, 24.75" x 29"

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Fr. signed "Frederick Tordoff" o/c. "Breezy Day on the Hudson River." Born 1939. Bio: Born in Whitley Bay on the northeast coast of England where the area has a rich maritime heritage and Fred sketched local scenes and landmarks. Joined the Royal Air Force and served in various locations such as the Outer Hebrides Island off Scotland, in Nicosia, Cyprus and Oman on the coast of South Arabia. Then studied Marine Radio and Electronics in Yorkshire at the Kingston-Upon-Hull College. Hull had a thriving school of marine art and after visits to the Ferens Art Gallery and the Hull Whaling Museum he was motivated to paint marine oils on canvas of the Humber keels and sloops which plied the inland waterways and the Hull whaling ships which voyaged northern and southern oceans in search of the whale in the days of sail. He joined the Cunard Steamship Company a Radio & Electronics Officer and traveled the world on many types of ships including freezer ships, general cargo ships, container ships, tankers, dive support vessels and passenger ships. Fred painted during the long sea passages and exhibited his work with a local art group and galleries in the North of England. After studying the watercolor paintings in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, local art galleries and auction houses began painting marine watercolors. Whilst serving in the South Atlantic between Ascension Island, Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands and Montvide, he was commissioned to paint some of the ships then operating in that area. Recent years have been spent running his art gallery of the River Tyne in the north of England and traveling on Dive Support ships working on subsea oil and gas installations and under oil production platforms in Scotland, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Congo, Nigeria, Cape Town South Africa, the South China Sea and many parts of Arabia. Currently residing in New Jersey and painting maritime scenes of the Hudson River, Nantucket / New Bedford whaling ships and the US Northeast coast. His painting are in collections in England, Scotland, Norway Holland, New Zealand, South Africa and USA. Submitted by the artist, November 2003 14" x 24" sight, 16" x 26" canvas

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"William Hart" (1823-1894). "View North near Cold Spring." Framed 19thC o/c. Featured in the Exhibition "This Perfect River-View": The Hudson River School and Contemporaries in Private Collections in the Highlands. The exhibit ran from July 20th to November 25, 2007 at the Putnam County Historical Society & Foundry School Museum in Cold Spring, NY. This painting was featured as plate #31 on page 47 of the 67 page catalog for the exhibition. It also bears the #6 tag from being on exhibit at the Historic Boscobel Home on the Hudson in Cold Spring, NY 8" x 13.5" sight, 9" x 14"

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Framed, 19thC, unsigned o/c "Francis Skiddy" ship portrait. C-1859. A great rendition of a steamboat that operated on the Hudson River first as a "Day Boat" and then as a "Night Boat." It ran aground and sank at Staatsburg, NY. According to the article, "Famous Hudson River Steamboats," "Up to 1851 no boat ever created such a sensation on the river as the "Francis Skiddy," and when she made her appearance was acclaimed as the finest steamer ever placed in the service. After running as a day-boat for four years she was converted into a night boat, and went on the Troy Line with the "Rip Van Winkle" and "Commodore," later on running with the "Hendrick Hudson" and the "Vanderbilt." The "Skiddy" was sunk near Staatsburg in November, 1864, and her engine was afterward put in the famous "Dean Richmond," built the following year, where it remained in service until the "Richmond" was broken up in 1908. This engine thus had a record of fifty-seven years continuous service, and with the engine of the old "Norwich" and the ferry-boat "Geo. H. Power" of Hudson, holds the record for the Hudson River." . 21.5" x 35.5" sight, 22" x 36" canvas

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19thC Signed "John J. Zang" Winter landscape o/c. Bio AskArt: ZANG, John J. was born in Georgia in 1859. Zang was living in Paterson, NJ in 1880 and active in Yosemite in 1883. He also painted along the Hudson River in New York. Examples of his work can be seen in the magazine Antiques, Sept. 1973 and March 1974. In: Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, CT). Landscape painter. Winter Views in landscapes are quite rare 29.25" x 46" sight, 30.25" x 46.25" canvas

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Framed 19thC View of People by the River with sailboat & house on opposite shore. American, Hudson River School. This appears to be on the northern part of the Hudson river. Unsigned 15" x 23" sight, 19" x 26.5"

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Framed 19thC o/c signed Andrew Melrose with a View on the Palisades with steamboat, sailboats and people. Bio AskArt: New Jersey artist Andrew Melrose painted traditional, atmospheric landscapes inspired by travels in Europe, South America, and various regions of the United States. Many of his best paintings are views of New York State and New Jersey, especially regions of the Hudson River Valley and New York Harbor. Melrose typically painted in an indigenous American style of landscape painting, which may be characterized as romantic realism. A self-taught artist, Melrose was born in Selkirk, Scotland in 1836. Although few records exist of his activity prior to the Civil War, it is thought that Melrose emigrated to the United States about 1856. In the two decades after 1865, he worked out of New Jersey, where he maintained studios in Hoboken and Guttenberg. Searching for inspiring subject matter, Melrose traveled to various Southern and Western areas of the United States, the British Isles and Austria. In 1880 or 1881, Melrose visited the mountain region of North Carolina. In addition to being impressed with the natural grandeur of that region, he was interested by certain aspects of rural life. Melrose rendered many of his Southern landscapes, which typically included views of the mountains of North Carolina or the Shenandoah Valley, in soft, atmospheric terms. In about 1887, Melrose executed an oil painting entitled" New York Harbor" and the Battery, from which he later produced a series of chromolithographs. This bright and airy view of the harbor recalls a long tradition of scenic landscape painting that goes back to the early nineteenth century. Melrose's concern for rendering the effects of light and atmosphere signals a trend toward a lighter palette and looser brush stroke. These stylistic developments suggest the influence of the French impressionists in his mature work. Melrose was a frequent exhibitor at the National Academy of Design between 1868 and 1883. He died in West New York, New Jersey in 1901. . 11.75" x 7.75" sight, 12.25" x 8.25" canvas