Joseph Rusling Meeker ART FOR SALE

1827 Newark, New Jersey - 1887 St. Louis, Missouri. Known for: Bayous, portrait and figure painting.

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A painter of southern landscapes, Joseph Meeker was born in Newark, New Jersey and grew up in Auburn, New York. He received a scholarship to the National Academy of Design in New York City, where he studied with the Hudson River School painter Asher B. Durand and with portraitist Charles Loring Elliott. After studying in New York City, he established a studio in Buffalo, 1849-52. He then moved to Louisville, Kentucky 1852-59, before settling permanently in St. Louis, Missouri, where he painted the Louisiana Bayou. During the Civil War he fulfilled his military duties as a Union Navy paymaster on a gunboat that traveled the Mississippi River. While traveling along the Mississippi River he sketched the bayous and swamps of Louisiana. When... Read full biography

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Lot 198 - Louisiana Purchase Auction November 19

Type:Painting

Size:8.25" x 6.25"

Medium:Oil

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Lot 198- Joseph Rusling Meeker, "Pair of Bayou Landscapes", 2 oils on board, each initialed lower right or left, framed alike. (2 pcs.) Estimate: $6,000-8,000