Carriage Ride

 Chevaux & Voitures. Le Cabriolet a Pompe. Published by M. Knoedler & Co. New York.

Spreading the News 1830s-1850s in Rural America by William Sidney Mount 1807-1868

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William Sidney Mount (American painter, 1807-1868) California News

William Sidney Mount (American painter, 1807-1868) Caught Napping 1848

William Sidney Mount (American painter, 1807-1868) Coming to the Point 1854

William Sidney Mount (American painter, 1807-1868) Farmers Nooning 1836

William Sidney Mount (American painter, 1807-1868) Politics of 1852


William Sidney Mount (American painter, 1807-1868) The Long Story 1837

William Sidney Mount (American painter, 1807-1868) The Painter's Triumph 1838
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1800s American Woman's Work - Tending the Fire

Platt Powell Ryder (American painter, 1821-1896) By the Hearth 1881


Enoch Wood Perry (American painter, 1831-1913) Saturday Afternoon.

Platt Powell Ryder (American painter, 1821-1896) Fireside Companion

Platt Powell Ryder (American painter, 1821-1896) The Grandmother

Platt Powell Ryder (American painter, 1821-1896) Fireside Chat

Dogs & Children in genre art by John Thomas Peele, English-born American artist, 1822–1897

John Thomas Peele (English-born American genre artist, 1822–1897) Feeding the Pets


English-born John Thomas Peele came to the United States with his family, when he was a child. As a young man, he painted portraits in America; and in 1846, Peele opened a studio in New York City, where he also produced genre paintings.  He returned to England in 1851, becoming active in the Society of British Arltists & living on the Isle of Man from 1858 to 1865, & dying in England in 1897.

John Thomas Peele (English-born American genre artist, 1822–1897) Dressing Myself

John Thomas Peele (English-born American genre artist, 1822–1897) Asleep on the Watch

John Thomas Peele (English-born American genre artist, 1822–1897) Girl with Twigs

John Thomas Peele (English-born American genre artist, 1822–1897) Two Children and a Kid

John Thomas Peele (English-born American genre artist, 1822–1897) The Young Scholar

John Thomas Peele (English-born American genre artist, 1822–1897) Family Introductions in a Young Family

Gathering Berries

John George Brown (1831-1913) Blackberry Picking

Grannie Knitting

John George Brown (1831-1913) Dear Old Grannie

Left Behind

John George Brown (1831-1913) Golden Locks Left Behind 1880

At a well

John George Brown (1831-1913) Have a Drink 1880

Saying Goodbye

John George Brown (1831-1913) Parted

Swinging on Gate

John George Brown (1831-1913) Swinging on a Gate, Southampson, New York 1878

A Posey for a Friend

John George Brown (1831-1913) The Button Hole Posey 1894

Pruning a tree

George Cochran Lambdin (American artist, 1830-1896) The Pruner 1868

Broken Parasol

John George Brown (1831-1913) Broken Parasol 1865

Richard Caton Woodville 1825-1855 - A Man's World - Baltimore

Richard Caton Woodville (American painter, 1825-1855) Politics in an Oysterhouse 1848


Richard Caton Woodville (1825-1855) was supported by his prosperous Baltimore family, who had hoped he would become a physician, in his endeavor to become an artist by trade.

Richard Caton Woodville (American painter, 1825-1855) Scene in a Bar Room 1845


His young artistic talent was stirred by his access to the art collection of early Baltimore art collector Robert Gilmore, whose collection included Dutch & Flemish genre paintings depicting domestic scenes of people in interiors.

Richard Caton Woodville (American painter, 1825-1855) Old 76 and Young 48, 1849


Some of Woodville's most delightful works are his genre scenes of Baltimore's citizens. Like many genre painters working for centuries before him, Woodville's paintings depict anecdotal details as well as unresolved conflict. Woodville was a storyteller.


Richard Caton Woodville (American painter, 1825-1855) The Card Players


Woodville recorded his early life in Baltimore in the form of drawings, including those depicting his University of Maryland medical school faculty during 1842-3, when he studied medicine.


Richard Caton Woodville (American painter, 1825-1855) News About the War in Mexico 1848


He finally decided to turn from medical studies to full-time painting; and in 1845, he sailed to study art in Düsseldorf.  He spent time in Europe, but his extant paintings reflect a relish for the people & interiors of American life.


Richard Caton Woodville (American painter, 1825-1855) Waiting for the Stage


While Woodville produced most of his work after leaving Baltimore in 1845 to travel widely in Germany, France & England, he continued to paint Maryland subject matter. He also sailed back to Baltimore for at least 2 visits after his 1845 departure.


Richard Caton Woodville (American painter, 1825-1855) The Sailor's Wedding 1852


Woodville died at age 30 from an overdose morphine

Richard Caton Woodville (American painter, 1825-1855)  Self Portrait 1853

Servant Girl

John George Brown (1831-1913) The Little Servant 1886

Everday Life - Reading & calculating

Thomas Hicks (American artist, 1823-1890) Calculating 1844

Women at Market in 1879 Texas

Thomas Allen (1849-1924) The Market Plaza, San Antonio 1879

Chickens, chickens, chickens - Mary Russell Smith 1842-1878

Mary Russell Smith (1842-1878) Spring Chickens and Butterfly

For several years, our nearby grandchildren raised beautiful rabbits to exhibit at the state fair. Now they are much too sophisticated to raise rabbits, so their mother decided to substitute chickens instead.  Lots of fresh eggs up here in our part of the woods now.

Mary Russell Smith (1842-1878) Six Chickens and Insect

I wanted to show you their chickens, but they don't stand still long enough for flattering portraits. And then I remembered Mary Russell Smith (1842-1878).

Mary Russell Smith (1842-1878) Young Guineas 1861

Mary Russell Smith (1842-1878) was born in Pennsylvania. Her father Russell Smith (1812-1896) was a well-known landscape & theater scenery painter, and her mother Mary Patricia Wilson Smith (1819-1874) was a painter of flowers. Her brother Xanthus was a marine painter, especially active during the American Civil War.

Mary Russell Smith (1842-1878) Hen and Her Chicks

Daughter Mary, also a painter, remained unwed throughout her lifetime, while she obsessively painted farm-life, especially chickens. Mary did not show her chickens at the state fair, but she did exhibit at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts from 1859-69, and again from 1876-78. These are a few of her chickens & rabbits.

Mary Russell Smith (1842-1878) Rabbits

In her short career, Mary Russell Smith executed over 300 paintings, that she meticulously detailed in her "Account of Work Done by Mary Smith, Artist" which is now in the Collection of the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.

Talking at the woodshed

James Goodwyn Clonney (English-born American artist, 1812-1867) At the Woodshed 1838

Flower Girl

John George Brown (1831-1913) The Flower Girl 1877