A series of six framed oil paintings, four of them attributed to Paul Kane. Paintings depict Fort Vancouver, Snake River, buffalo, and buffalo hunting. This painting was a part of Mr. Coe's gift of his Western Collection, acquired from the widow of a grandson of Sir George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Territories in North America.
Description:
A list of the paintings can be found in: Withington, M. C. 278., By or after Lieutenant Warre., and Paintings described by Mr. C. P. Wilson in an article “Early Western Paintings” which appeared in The Beaver, June 1949 (no. 280).
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874), born in Baltimore, accompanied William Drummond Stewart on an 1837 expedition to the Green River Valley, Wind River Mountains, and the eastern section of Oregon Territory. He was commissioned by Stewart to sketch the Indians and scenery and later enlarge them into oil paintings.
Subject (Name):
Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874 and Stewart, William Drummond, Sir, 1795 or 6-1871
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874), born in Baltimore, accompanied William Drummond Stewart on an 1837 expedition to the Green River Valley, Wind River Mountains, and the eastern section of Oregon Territory. He was commissioned by Stewart to sketch the Indians and scenery and later enlarge them into oil paintings.
Subject (Name):
Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874 and Stewart, William Drummond, Sir, 1795 or 6-1871
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874), born in Baltimore, accompanied William Drummond Stewart on an 1837 expedition to the Green River Valley, Wind River Mountains, and the eastern section of Oregon Territory. He was commissioned by Stewart to sketch the Indians and scenery and later enlarge them into oil paintings.
Subject (Geographic):
Oregon
Subject (Name):
Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874 and Stewart, William Drummond, Sir, 1795 or 6-1871
Watercolor and oil painting on silk depicting black ships, consisting of two sailing ships and two steamships of the United States East India Squadron led by Commodore Matthew Perry upon his second visit to Japan, probably in Tokyo Bay in February 1854.
Description:
The colophon on the right side of the image states: "On the sixteenth day of the second month in the seventh year of the Kaei period [1854] six steamships from the American navy entered the harbor, their ships having high masts and great speed. [This pain
Subject (Name):
Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858--Travel--Japan. and United States. Navy. East India Squadron
Subject (Topic):
United States Naval Expedition to Japan, 1852-1854--Pictorial works
A set of six framed oil paintings of scenes in the Pacific Northwest. Four of the paintings, "Falls of the Peluse Snake River," "Kakkabakka Falls (Falls on the Willamette)", "Buffalo Hunt," and "Buffalo Resting", have been attributed to Paul Kane. "Fort Vancouver, Columbia River," has been attributed to John Mix Stanley (see Hassrick, et al., Painted Journeys, 2016). C. P. Wilson, in his article “Early Western Paintings” in The Beaver (June, 1948) suggests that “Mount Hood from the East” might be by or after a work by Henry J. Warre, a British Army officer.
Description:
Acquired from the widow of Sir George Simpson. Given to the library by William Robertson Coe. and Paul Kane (1810-1871), from Toronto, spent four years in Europe and returned to North America to paint Indians and scenes of the Northwest. He joined the Hudson's Bay Company's 1846 spring brigade to the Northwest and George Simpson, the company's governor, commissioned paintings. After two years, Kane returned east and fulfilled commissions by George William Allan of Toronto and others, to do oil paintings of Northwest Indians and scenes.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Kane, Paul,--1810-1871., Stanley, John Mix,--1814-1872., and Warre, Henry James,--Sir,--1819-1898.
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting--Pictorial works. and American bison--Pictorial works.
A set of six framed oil paintings of scenes in the Pacific Northwest. Four of the paintings, "Falls of the Peluse Snake River," "Kakkabakka Falls (Falls on the Willamette)", "Buffalo Hunt," and "Buffalo Resting", have been attributed to Paul Kane. "Fort Vancouver, Columbia River," has been attributed to John Mix Stanley (see Hassrick, et al., Painted Journeys, 2016). C. P. Wilson, in his article “Early Western Paintings” in The Beaver (June, 1948) suggests that “Mount Hood from the East” might be by or after a work by Henry J. Warre, a British Army officer.
Description:
Acquired from the widow of Sir George Simpson. Given to the library by William Robertson Coe. and Paul Kane (1810-1871), from Toronto, spent four years in Europe and returned to North America to paint Indians and scenes of the Northwest. He joined the Hudson's Bay Company's 1846 spring brigade to the Northwest and George Simpson, the company's governor, commissioned paintings. After two years, Kane returned east and fulfilled commissions by George William Allan of Toronto and others, to do oil paintings of Northwest Indians and scenes.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest, Pacific--Pictorial works.
Subject (Name):
Kane, Paul,--1810-1871., Stanley, John Mix,--1814-1872., and Warre, Henry James,--Sir,--1819-1898.
Subject (Topic):
American bison hunting--Pictorial works. and American bison--Pictorial works.
