Confidence After James Bard Hudson River American Side Wheel Steamboat Portrait

Description

20th Century Portrait Painting of "Confidence" After James Bard. Features a Hudson River Side Wheel moving down water in New York. The oil painting is on canvas and unsigned. Framed in wood with gold finish.

JAMES BARD (1815—1897)
Born in New York City, eight years after Robert Fulton sent the first steamboat up the Hudson River, James Bard saw and reflected in his marine paintings the industrial development of shipping in America.

He and his twin brother John Bard together painted more than 350 marine portraits, steamships and sailboats in the New York Harbor and on the Hudson River. Likely James did the outline sketches, and John filled in the color and backgrounds.

Condition

Very Good; Gently Used

Dimensions

26" x 1.5" x 36" ; canvas 20" x 30"