John Bristol (1826-1909) American, Riverside Landscape Oil on Canvas. Beautiful view of a town along the water, with people walking along the shoreline. Signed bottom right. Ornate gilded frame. 

Condition: Damage to frame. Painting in excellent condition. 

Overall Size: 18 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. 

Sight Size: 9 1/2 x 15 in. 

Frame Thickness: 3 in. 

John Bunyan Bristol was born in Hillsdale, New York in 1826. Self-taught, Bristol studied from nature and originally painted figure and portrait paintings. He abandoned these genres in order to devote his skillful hand to landscape painting. In the late 1840s Bristol studied briefly with the painter Henry Ary, staying at his home in Massachusetts and creating highly detailed images which typically combined water and land views. He traveled to Florida in 1859 and produced several tropical pictures which had an impact on his style for the rest of his life. In the 1880s he began to exhibit oil paintings of the northern Adirondacks around Whiteface Mountain and Lake Placid. He was a longtime member of the National Academy of Design and the Century Association. He was honored with medals at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition and at the 1900 Paris Exposition. He died on August 31st, 1909, in the Home for the Incurables in New York City, after having been taken there a year before following a stroke. His works are now highly sought by collectors all over the world for their incredibly delicate use of light, color, shadow, and form, with many in museums along the United States East Coast.

Damage to frame. Painting in excellent condition.