Hudson River School Landscape Oil Painting Lake Geneva Adirondacks New York byJohn Bunyan Bristol, Circa 1870

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A fine large antique Hudson River School oil on canvas painting, by John Bunyan Bristol (New York- Massachusetts 1826-1909), likely … Read more A fine large antique Hudson River School oil on canvas painting, by John Bunyan Bristol (New York- Massachusetts 1826-1909), likely Lake Geneva New York circa 1870.
The painting depicts a figure seated by the lake with mountains to the background, the painting is signed lower left "J B Bristol". The painting is housed in the original gilded frame, the painting has recently been professionally conserved & cleaned and is ready to hang on you wall.

John Bunyan Bristol, N.A., (National Academician of the Academy of Artists & Architects), he was a landscape-painter, was born in Hillsdale, New York, March 14, 1826. His early life was a struggle without aid, instruction, or sympathy. At the beginning of his career he painted figures and portraits, but afterward turned his attention exclusively to landscapes. His studies were from nature.
He was primarily a self-taught artist, however, he did study briefly with the landscapist Henry Ary (a four-week course), who moved to the Hudson area in the early 1840s. Painters in Hudson were noted as landscape specialists, and Ary, who was known for his picturesque views of the town and nearby Mount Merino, was the instructor in painting and drawing at the Hudson Female Academy, and had some influence on artists in the area. Unlike his contemporaries Asher B. Durand, John W. Casilear, and John F. Kensett, he never traveled to Europe, but Bristol's distinctive style was consistent with the early spirit of the Hudson River School.
Bristol became a highly accomplished artist who painted most extensively in the Adirondacks, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont. He produced works displaying land, water and mountain views with a luminous quality. In 1860 he made his home in New York City, finding inspiration for his landscapes in the Berkshire Mountains, along the New Jersey coast, around Lake George and Lake Champlain, the Connecticut River Valley, the Green Mountains and throughout New England.
As Samuel Isham in "The History of American Painting", 1942 observed: "No one constructs a landscape more firmly than he; the solidity of the earth, the level of the lake, the plane of the distant hills, the enveloping of all by the summer sky with sunlit clouds – all are given with an absolute sureness…". Like his colleagues Kensett and Durand, with whom he is often compared, Bristol accurately captured the spirit of the landscape while remaining true to the ideals of the Hudson River School.

At sight measurements are 30" in width and 18" in height. See less