View on the Delaware & Sailors Taking on Waves

Dr. Edward Ruggles (New York, 1817?-1867)
Oil on board
Circa: 1860
Size of each: 4 1/2" x 6 3/8" (sight) | 7 1/4" x 9 1/8" (frame)
A richly painted scene along the Delaware with fall foliage. Together with a painting of boats and sailors taking on some whitecaps. Ruggles was a successful Brooklyn doctor who retired from practice to become a painter. His small, luminescent paintings were known as "Ruggles' Gems." He was a family friend and physician to Walt Whitman.

From New York Times, March 12, 1867 "He [Ruggles] appreciated nature and American scenery as few artists have had the soul to do; and he put them on the canvas with the delicacy, brilliancy and purity never surpassed....His relentless hatred of charlatanism, in art as well as in life; his fierce denunciations of pretenders, his pride and independence of spirit, were well-known to all who met him, whether artist or not."

Condition: View on the Delaware = Excellent. Boating on Rough Waters = Good, upper right and left of sky has spits to the board and some minor loss. Both framed in period gold gilt frames.

Price: $4,800.00 pair

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