19th C. AMERICAN LANDSCAPE J.B. SWORD #2

(Item: SWORD #2)

We have just contracted to sell a local "living" estate which is full of lots of very nice items. Many wonderful family pieces which are inheritance from Philadelphia. For starters, today, there are two lovely landscape, 19th century oil paintings, by James Brade Sword; 169 piece set of Sterling Silver Reed & Barton "Marlborough'' pattern Flatware; and an unusual Teplitz "Amphoria" urn. Please watch the link for "Our Other Auctions" for future listings, including lots of lovely signed cut lead crystal. For reference, please note, all of the items have a valid and recent local appraisal and any items on which we place a reserve price, we will be using one half of the appraised value.
THIS AUCTION
19th CENTURY Landscape #2, Oil on Board, by James Brade Sword. An excellent mountainous village setting with horses pulling a wagon up a steep dirt road; probably rural Pennsylvania or New York State, circa 1880s. Oil on board is 20 1/2" by 13 3/4" and the excellent period (and probably original to painting) gilt frame is 28" by 21 1/2". Back is tidy with relatively new paper and hanger; original sticker was saved: Rosenbach Galleries; 1320 Walnut St.; Phila., Pa.; 337. Painting has no obvious repairs or inpainting and could, no doubt, be brightened with a professional cleaning. The below pictures were taken in sunlight and images show paintings brighter than they are in indoor light. Signed lower right, as pictured, "J. B. Sword". The other Sword painting has a stamped canvas board dated 1879 and there is no reason to think this painting has a different date. We fully guarantee this painting to be as noted.

Sword was born in Philadelphia in 1839 and lived and painted in Pennsylvania most of his life. He also painted in the Adirondack Mountains, Newport, Rhode Island and on the Jersey shore. He was a popular painter of portraits, landscapes, seascapes and genre. He died in 1915. He was a professional painter and was a member of the Artists' Fund Society; Philadelphia Society of Artists; and the Art Club of Philadelphia, of which he was a founder. His works are in the collection of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and his 1911 portrait of J. W. Hones, Speaker of the House, hangs in the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
Information Credit: David Zellman, "Three Hundred Years of American Art."
James Brade Sword is well listed and has had sales as high as the $28,000.00 range.
Will pack properly and ship promptly.
UPS INSURED OVERSIZED DOMESTIC GROUND SHIPPING $25.
Please check our other auctions to see the other Oil on Board by Sword
...will gladly keep the pair together and ship in one carton.

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~Oil on board is 20 1/2" x 13 3/4" and frame is 28" x 21 1/2"~

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