American School, 19th Century View of a Stately Home

Description:

American School, 19th Century

View of a Stately Home
Possibly signed l.r.
Oil on canvas, 21 1/2 x 36 in. (54.6 x 91.4 cm),framed.
Condition: Scattered paint losses, accretions, abrasions, craquelure, extensive surface grime.

N.B. This work most likely dates from the mid-19th century, showing a rambling, asymmetrical villa of the style that came into fashion with the pattern books of Andrew Jackson Downing (American, 1815-1852),inspired by the English designer John Claudius Loudon in the 1830s.
Estimate $600-800

Canvas stencil from Edward Dechaux, New York, on the reverse.

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