ERNEST PARTON

(American, 1845-1933)

RURAL LANDSCAPE WITH BRIDGE

Oil on Canvas

16 x 26 ½ Inches

Signed Lower Left

Framed by Steven Motyka

Born in Hudson, New York, Ernest Parton first studied with his older brother, the painter Arthur Parton.  Ernest found early and immediate success in London with landscapes painted in the Barbizon style and remained in England for much of his life although he returned to the United States and served the Union with distinction during the civil war.  A member of the Artists’ Fund Society in New York and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London, Parton exhibited at the Paris Expositions Universelles of 1899 and 1900 and at London's Royal Academy from 1875 to 1932.  He also exhibited with success at London's Suffolk Street and Grosvenor Galleries during this period. In 1879, Parton’s landscape, "The Waning of the Year", was purchased by the Chantrey Trust for London’s Tate Gallery. In the same year, his Woodland Home was acquired for the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Ernest Parton’s work is held in major museums throughout the United States and Britain. We are pleased to offer this delicate and lyrical example of the work of an outstanding American Barbizon painter.

Reference:

American Artists: Signatures and Monograms, 1800-1989, Castagno, p.521;   American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, Fink, p. 378; Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Vol.10 p. 600-601; Davenport’s Art Reference Guide, 2007/8 Edition, p. 1803; Kunstlexicon, Thieme-Becker, Vol. 25/26 p. 262; Who Was Who in American Art, Falk, Vol. III, p. 2532; et al.