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Item Code: 557-11
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In handsome modern brown frame, 16.75” x 12. Original painting, 9.625” x 6, matted in gray, w/paper backing and hang-wire. Depicts John Reynold falling from his horse after having been hit by a Confederate sniper at Gettysburg, July 1, 1863. Exhibits exquisite detail in somber half tones of black and gray. (“Goauche” is a method of painting with opaque water colors). Artist’s signature “JR Chapin” appears at the left corner.
Chapin was a Civil War-era painter illustrator engraver especially noted for his Civil War illustrations and western scenes. From 1843-45 Chapin traveled through the South as a correspondent for “Gleason’s Pictorial,” later becoming a commercial illustrator in New York, and later organized the Art Department for Harper’s Magazine, and later created drawing for the Patent Office in Washington, DC.
Superb signed painting of a climatic Gettysburg moment by an eminent Civil War artist. Attractively mounted. [JP] [ph:L]
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