Lot 219
John William Hill (English / American, 1836-1928). "Mountainous Landscape with Cottage" watercolor on paper, 1870. Etched signature and date in lower right. A delightful painting by artist John William Hill depicting an idyllic mountain scene of a woman, child, and puppy meandering down a dirt path to a cottage. John William Hill began his career as a topographical painter and printmaker. About 1855 he read John Ruskins Modern Painters and, under the English critics influence, altered his style to produce landscapes like this one. Painted in 1870, this mountainous landscape was likely part of the American Ruskinian campaign to reform American landscape painting, turning away from the more painterly, idealized Catskill views of Thomas Cole in favor of small, intricately detailed landscape visions in oil and watercolor. Size of painting: 8.5" W x 5.75" H (21.6 cm x 14.6 cm); of frame: 17" W x 14" H (43.2 cm x 35.6 cm)
Born in London, England, John William Hill came to America with his family at age 7. His father, John Hill, was a well-known landscape painter, engraver, and aquatintist. John William had a career of two phases, a city topographer-engraver and then, the leading pre-Raphaelite school painter in this country. Employed by the New York Geological Survey and then by Smith Brothers in New York City, he did lithographs of cities, private residences and public buildings.
In 1855 at age 43, he became involved with the Pre-Raphaelite movement led by Englishman, John Ruskin. This aesthetic philosophy was a turning away from academic strictures to the purity of art before Rafael, to focus on the uplifting qualities of art through natural setting landscapes, meticulous observation of nature, and bright colors on a wet ground. The bright, luminous qualities with detailed form contrasted with the somber prevailing works of the time.
Hill worked mainly in New Jersey and along the Hudson River Valley but also was in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in 1852 and 1857 and in 1852 did a view of Richmond, Virginia that was published by Smith and Brothers.
Provenance: private southern California, USA collection, acquired December 2020 via Broward Auction Gallery LLC, Dania Beach, Florida, USA; ex-The Station Gallery, Greenville, Delaware, USA
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- Condition: Etched signature and date in lower right. Professional repair to upper left corner, but otherwise in very good condition. Set behind glass in custom matte and wooden frame with suspension wire on verso for display. Some nicks to frame and tearing to gallery paper on verso; none of which affects painting.
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