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ARTIST: Samuel Lancaster Gerry (Massachusetts, 1813 - 1891) TITLE: Landscape with Cattle Crossing MEDIUM: oil on canvas. Canvas applied to board. CONDITION: One small paint loss by the upper edge. Some scattered small inpaintings. Wear to frame. ART SIZE: 11 x 15 inches / 27 x 38 cm FRAME SIZE: 16 x 20 inches / 40 x 50 cm SIGNATURE: lower right PROVENANCE: Auctioneer Hindman, Date 2013-05-12, Lot 55 LOCATION: This lot is located at our Mamaroneck, NY office. CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 135945 US SHIPPING: $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Samuel Lancaster Gerry was an artist in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. He painted portraits and also landscapes of the White Mountains and other locales in New England. He was affiliated with the New England Art Union, and the Boston Artists' Association. In 1857 he co-founded the Boston Art Club. Born in Boston, Gerry was self-taught as an artist. He showed works in many public settings, such as the 1841 exhibit of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association; and an 1879 exhibit of contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He attended the 1860 convention of the National Art Association in Washington, DC. Students of Gerry included H. Frances Osborne, Samuel Green Wheeler Benjamin, Fannie Elliot Gifford, Charles Wesley Sanderson, and J. Frank Currier. With the exception of three years abroad, his professional life was passed chiefly in Boston. Like many 19th century artists, Samuel Lancaster Gerry began his career as a sign and decorative painter before looking abroad for inspiration. He traveled to England, France, Switzerland and Italy during the mid-1830s, befriending fellow artist George Loring Brown, and falling under the influence of Barbizon painter Constant Troyon. While remaining largely self-taught, Gerry eventually established himself as a successful genre and landscape artist in his hometown of Boston. There, he taught classes at the Tremont Street Studio Building, became a leading promoter of the arts, and exhibited in nearly every Boston Art Club exhibition from its inception until the year he died. He also exhibited at the National Academy, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Boston Athenaeum, and made frequent trips throughout New England and the Lake George region of New York procuring material for his poetic landscapes.