Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819-1905) Still Life of Dead Game 18...

Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819-1905)
Still Life of Dead Game
signed and dated 'A.F. Tait / 53' (lower right)
oil on board
18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm.)
Painted in 1853.

Footnotes

Provenance
Elizabeth Ives Slater Reed, Cedar Hill Farm, Warwick, Rhode Island.
Private collection, Vermont.
Estate of the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature
(possibly) W. Cadbury and H. Marsh, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait: Artist in the Adirondacks, Newark, New Jersey, 1986, p. 124, no. 53.4-.9.

The present work depicts a mallard and a green-winged teal. It is probably one of the '6 small oval groups of Dead Game' painted in 1853-54 that are listed in the collective register for the artist.