28,4" WILLIAM COVENTRY WALL "River Landscape" painting art printed on canvas
WILLIAM COVENTRY WALL (1810 - 1886)
Title of artwork: "River Landscape"
Ready to hang on the wall. Canvas on the wooden underframe. Outer frame are not included!
Year: 1850-1860
Technique: printed on canvas nowadays
Condition: perfect
Diagonal: 28,4" or 72,1 cm.
Size: 23,6" x 15,7" (in) or 60 x 40 cm.
Please note that this is a reproduction printed on canvas
The size may differ from how it looks in the photo
Color can be slightly different from the picture.
William Coventry Wall was an American 19th Century painter. His painting
career took off when he painted 2 views of the Pittsburgh city after the fire,
had lithographs made of the pictures and sold them. (The Great Fire of
Pittsburgh was one of the most devastating events in the city’s history. A
third of the town was destroyed in approximately seven hours during the 1845
catastrophe, and the only visual recollection (aside from fire relics) are the
renderings of local artists who witnessed the event.) His studio was on Wood St
in Pittsburgh. At times he worked with other artists including his brother
Alfred and was part of a group of Plein Aire painters called Scalp Level
Artists. They would travel to Scalp Level near Johnstown on the Railroad in the
summer and fall and paint "en plain aire". Several of his paintings
are on permanent display at the Carnegie Art Museum in Pittsburgh and the
Westmoreland Art Museum in Greensburg. Coventry Wall's work has been offered at
auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $700 USD to $59,375
USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record
price for this artist at auction is $59,375 USD for View on the Allegheny near
Pittsburgh, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2010.
Ref.: 291120001344