Auction: June 22, 2014

Lot #449: (In the Manner of Hudson River School) Lelia J. Wood (American, 19th Century) "Wilson's Pond" Oil on Canvas

c.1884, signed en verso, depicting a pond of water with a house in the background from Keene, New Hampshire; possibly the "White Mountains" in the background; written on the wood stretchers is a story written by the girl describing that this was the first of three paintings she did that day when her parents were elsewhere reading underneath a apple tree; Lelia also had a role in drawing the map of Hancock, New Hampshire; Wadsworth Howland & Co. Canvas