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IRVING RAMSEY WILES The Gate Down to the Beach on Indian Neck * Sailboat Near The Dock.
Oil on board, double-sided. 248x350 mm; 9 3/4x13 3/4 inches. Signed in oil on both sides in the lower right. Ex-collection private collection, New York.
Wiles (1861-1948) was born into an artistic family; his first painting lessons were from his father, Lemuel Maynard Wiles (1826-1905), a landscape painter of the Hudson River School who experimented with French 19th century, Barbizon influences. The younger Wiles went on to train with William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League in New York, and with Carolus-Duran, who also taught John Singer Sargent, at his renowned studio in Paris. Wiles rose to prominence as a portrait painter in the early 20th century, with notable commissions including portraits of the actress Julia Marlowe and politicians William Jennings Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt While known for his portrait work, the current lot is a nod to Wiles's accomplishments in landscape painting. Irving and Lemuel Wiles together taught plein air courses on the North Fork of Long Island beginning in 1894, where Wiles and his family spent summers so that he could devote himself to such projects.
