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Collection Record Detail
Object Name
Oil Painting - Rear of St. Michael's Church
Object Number
1919-18-1
Description
Oil on canvas. View of the 1850 stone Gothic Episcopal church after the steeple has been removed. This house depicted to the left of the church is not the parish house but probably the Ozias Seymour House across South Street from the Church. Rev. Storrs O. Seymour was minister of St. Michael's and lived in his own house which was called the Rectory and this is the house depicted. Painting is framed is large wooden frame with incised lines for decoration, gilded.
Comment
Alexander Theobald Van Laer was born in Auburn, New York. He studied at the Art Students League in the city and abroad in the Netherlands, later becoming an educator and a leading landscape painter in the Tonalist style. Van Laer began painting in Litchfield in 1893, where he would have been a close friend of Adelaide Deming, an artist and fellow member of the American Watercolor Society. Van Laer purchased a house in Litchfield in 1911.
Category
Date Made
1919
Dimensions
37 1/2 x 41 1/2 inches framed
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