William Henry Howe (1846-1929) American, Oil on Panel. A smaller version of "My Day at Home" by Howe at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Signed in the lower left corner, and indistinctly dedicated. Depicting a cow in a barn laying down in hay. William Howe is known for Pastoral landscape with cattle painting, illustration. William Henry Howe was born in Ravenna, Ohio in 1846. Of him it was written: "In the late nineteenth century no American artist was more thoroughly identified with the painting of cows than William Henry Howe." (Richter 128). In a style that combined Tonalism and Realism, he was a painter of light-filled pastoral landscapes that sometimes had sheep as well as cattle tended by their shepherds and herders. He began a career as a businessman in St. Louis, and in his mid-thirties, changed course and went to Dusseldorf Germany to study art at the Royal Academy. In 1881, he went to Paris and studied with animal painters Felix Vuillefroy and Otto de Thoren. He also exhibited his work at the Paris Salons and the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889. Overall Size: 18 x 20 1/2 in. Sight Size: 10 x 12 1/2 in. Frame Thickness: 3 3/4 in. #1458 Location A HIGH