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HOMER DODGE MARTIN (AMERICAN 1836-1897) LADY SEATED BY AN EXPANSIVE RIVERSCAPE, POSSIBLY NORMANDY signed with initials HDM lower left oil on canvas 61 x 50.5cm; 24 x 19 1/4in 87.5 x 76.5cm; 34 1/2 x 30 1/8in (framed) Born and raised in Albany, New York, Homer Dodge Martin was encouraged to pursue an artistic career by Erastus Dow Palmer (1817-1904). During the early 1860s, Dodge Martin spent his summers in the Catskills, Adirondacks and White Mountains and composed expansive lake and mountain views in the manner of the Hudson River School. From 1882-1886 he lived in France spending much of his time in Normandy, influenced by the work of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Eugène Boudin. Adopting the looser brushwork of both artists he earned the label the 'first American impressionist' and on visits to England he befriended James McNeill Whistler. He returned to New York in 1893. Ill with cancer, partially blind and suffering from depression, he moved to Saint Paul in Minnesota. There in 1895 he painted two of his best known works, Adirondacks Scenery, painted from memory and Harp of the Wind, acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The present oil combines the sublime of the American landscape with Dodge Martin's facility to paint en plein air learnt from the French Barbizon painters.