Arthur Quartley ART FOR SALE

1839 Paris, France - 1886 New York City. Known for: Marine, seascape and landscape painting, engraving.

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Arthur Quartley (May 24, 1839 - May 19, 1886), was an American painter known for his marine seascapes. Quartley was born in Paris and lived there to the age of twelve, when his family moved to Baltimore, Maryland. He studied drawing with his father C.G. Quartley, who was an English engraver. His father was reputed to have demanded two drawings per week from the young lad. At age 17, Arthur was apprenticed to a sign painter in Baltimore. In 1862 Quartley and his family founded a design firm in Baltimore. The firm Emmart & Quartley was regarded as the best decorating company in the city (Dictionary of American Biography); however, young Quartley began painting marine seascapes of Chesapeake Bay, and progressively spent more and more time in... Read full biography

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"An Afternoon at the Shoals"

Type:Painting

Year:1878

Size:13.00" x 24.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Signed and Dated

Edition:Original

Notes:

Arthur Quartley was among the artists at the Isles of Shoals Art Colony for many summers, painting with Childe Hassam, Appleton Brown and the De Haas Brothers. This work shows us the active fishing local in it's heyday.

Price: $10,800. Please contact Ledges Gallery, NH Fine Art