Sight: 35.5" wd. x 23.5" ht., Framed: 43.5" wd. x 33.5" ht. Signed L.L., Oil on canvas, in original stretcher, housed in a gilt and gesso frame. This is a rare, large-scale example of Meakin's work. 

Lewis Henry Meakin (American, 1850-1917) was born in 1850 in Newcastle, England. His family first emgirated to Canada in 1860, and then to Cincinnati in 1863. After studying in Europe, he became a lifelong teacher at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He is recognized as an important Midwest landscapist, who began working in a Tonalist manner, and then moved toward Impressionism around the turn of the century. In 1891, he painted in Gloucester and Camden, and in 1893-94 he was with William Picknell in Paris, Normandy and Southern France. In 1911-1917, he was a curator for the Cincinnati Art Museum. George Bellows considered him to be "one of the best landscape painters in America".

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