Franklin D. Bricoe Marine Philadelphia New Jersey Listed American Artist - $1,500 - (Jersey City, NJ)
Offered for sale is an important painting by important American artist FRANKLIN D. BRISCOE (American, 1844-1903) Title: Reeling in the Catch, 1893 (There is an alternate title on the back "Waiting for the Tide" written in artists hand.) Oil on canvas 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm) Signed and dated lower right: F. D. Briscoe / 93 Framed: Yes, in an old and heavy impressionist-style frame that may have been gold gilded at one time in the past and is now mostly painted over and chipping. Framed dimensions 27.5 x 23.5 inches Condition Report: Unlined canvas; heavily discolored and streaky varnish layer; scattered dry craquelure with flecks of paint loss and warped canvas with cracks in upper center sky; under UV exam, old varnish layer makes painting surface too difficult to read. There appears to be a layer of grease-like substance on the surface; Could benefit from a light cleaning. BIOGRAPHY Franklin D. Briscoe is best known for his masterful renderings of marine views. He established a successful painting career and was highly regarded as a competent marine painter during his lifetime. He was a versatile artist whose work included history painting and portraiture as well as seascapes. Briscoe was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1844. At the age of four his family moved to Philadelphia, where Briscoe he trained with eminent marine artist Thomas Moran (1860) and in Europe. He studied the masters in London, Paris and other continental cities and by the age of 25 was considered a proficient landscape and marine painter. Traveling by ship all over the world many times, Briscoe found many marine subjects during extended voyages. In 1885 he painted a major historical mural The Battle of Gettysburg (whereabouts now unknown) that measured 13 feet tall x 230 feet long (ten panels). For more information regarding this artist see 300 Years of American Art, volume 1, page 401 and Who Was Who in American Art, vol. 1, p. 445. Briscoe exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fi…
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