详情
THOMAS BIRCH (1779-1851)
View of New York Harbor
oil on canvas
20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1835.
来源
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Knoedler Gallery, New York
H. Richard Dietrich, Jr., (1938-2007), Chester Springs, Pennsylvania
Christie's, New York, 31 May 1985, lot 20
Glen S. Foster, New York
Beman Galleries, Nyack, New York
Phillips, New York, 21 May 2002, lot 63
出版
William H. Gerdts, Thomas Birch: 1779-1851 Paintings and Drawings, Philadelphia Maritime Museum (Philadelphia, 1966), p. 35, no. 33, illustrated.
William H. Gerdts, "Thomas Birch: America's First Marine Artist," The Magazine Antiques (April 1966), p. 532, illustrated.
展览
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Maritime Museum
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拍品专文

View of New York Harbor embodies the industrialization and evolution of New York’s waterways in the 1830s. Thomas Birch painted this scene in the early 1830s, shortly after the completion of the Erie Canal, a transformative event that opened the nation’s interior and rapidly expanded New York’s port and waterways. Here, Birch shows schooners, steamboats and a rowboat traveling through the harbor, reflecting on the variety of vessel and also the constant activity. Taken from a vantage point from Brooklyn and across the choppy waters, Birch includes recognizable landmarks: Castle Williams on Governors Island and Castle Garden at the tip of lower Manhattan, with its spire of Trinity Church rising above. In View of New York Harbor, Birch weaves together meticulous topographical description with romantic expression, a combination that gives his harbor views their enduring appeal.

Born in 1779 in Warwickshire, England, Thomas Birch moved with his family to the Philadelphia area at the age of fifteen. His education in painting was directed by his father, William Birch, a well-known landscape artist and enamel portraitist. Thomas’s interest in landscape and marine painting led him to devote his attention and career to the genre. In 1811, at “the first exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, [Brich] had established himself in the field of landscape and seascape painting…’ (W.H. Gerdts, Thomas Birch (Philadelphia, 1966), p. 12). A year later, Birch was appointed the Keeper or Curator of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and served in the position until 1817.

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