Lemuel Maynard Wiles (1826-1905)
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Lemuel Maynard Wiles (1826-1905)

From Waldorf, West Park

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Lemuel Maynard Wiles (1826-1905)
From Waldorf, West Park
signed and dated 'L.M. Wiles/1877' (lower right)--signed and dated again and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
oil on board
18 ½ x 12 ½ in. (47 x 31.8 cm.)
Painted in 1877.

The artist.
Mrs. J.A. Frothingham, Brooklyn, New York, acquired from the above, 1877.
Private collection, Maine.
Christie's, New York, 5 December 1986, lot 121, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Note du spécialiste

The present work depicts a view from Waldorf, the summer estate of John Jacob Astor III (1822-1890) located at West Park-on-the-Hudson in the town of Esopus, Ulster County, New York. Today the site is part of Marist College.

We would like to thank Geoffrey K. Fleming, Executive Director of the Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia, for his assistance with cataloguing this lot.