FRANKLIN DULLIN BRISCOE SUNSET SHORE SCENE OIL PAINTING

FRANKLIN DULLIN BRISCOE SUNSET SHORE SCENE OIL PAINTING

Franklin Dullin Briscoe
American, 1844-1903
A Shore Scene at Sunset
Signed: F.D. Briscoe (lr);
Oil on board
7 x 9 inches

CONDITION REPORT: Very good to excellent. Dirt & Grime, yellowing to the surface, minor edge wear, framed under glass. Housed in a vintage gilt wood frame.

PROVENANCE: Private Collection, Amherst, New Hampshire.
Thence by descent to the present owner

ARTIST BIO:
Franklin D. Briscoe is best known for his masterful renderings of marine views. He established a successful painting career and was highly regarded as a competent marine painter during his lifetime. He was a versatile artist whose work included history painting and portraiture as well as seascapes.

Briscoe was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1844. At the age of four his family moved to Philadelphia, where Briscoe he trained with eminent marine artist Thomas Moran (1860) and in Europe. He studied the masters in London, Paris and other continental cities and by the age of 25 was considered a proficient landscape and marine painter. Traveling by ship all over the world many times, Briscoe found many marine subjects during extended voyages. In 1885 he painted a major historical mural The Battle of Gettysburg that measured 13 feet tall x 230 feet long (ten panels).

Briscoe exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Brooklyn Art Association. He remained in Philadelphia throughout his life and died there in 1903.
Condition Report: Very good to excellent. Dirt & Grime, yellowing to the surface, minor edge wear, framed under glass. Housed in a vintage gilt wood frame.