Oil on board, 1879. 460x630 mm; 18x24 3/4 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.
Ex-collection private collection, Massachusetts.
This work has been reviewed and authenticated by Christine Connett of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachussetts.
Bradford (1823-1892) was a Romantic landscape painter and explorer from Fairhaven, Massachusetts, near New Bedford. He went on several Arctic expeditions and was the first American artist to depict the region. His representations of landscapes with natural light connect him with contemporaneous 19th century landscape painters from the Hudson River School, such as Thomas Cole (see lot 5) and Frederic Edwin Church.
