Pair of oil on canvas landscape paintings, attributed to Joseph Rusling Meeker (Missouri/Louisiana, 1827 - 1887). 1st item: Oil on canvas landscape painting titled "Farm Scene" depicting a farmstead with a wooden bridge and cows drinking from a stream foreground, farmstead with figures conversing mid-ground and a body of water with sailboats in the background. Inscription en verso reads "Pt. by J. R. Meeker Jan. 1846". Housed in an carved wood frame with giltwood liner and brass nameplate attributing the work to Meeker. Sight: 19 3/8" H x 23" W. Framed: 26 1/4" H x 30 1/2" W. 2nd item: Oil on canvas landscape painting titled "Country Bridge at Dusk" depicting figures on a stone bridge and in a rowboat with a dog foreground, cows entering the water with a figure rowing a boat left mid-ground and figures walking along a pathway with a farmstead visible left background. Inscription en verso reads "J R Meeker Jan 1846". Housed in a carved wood frame with giltwood liner and brass nameplate attributing the work to Meeker. Sight: 19 1/2" H x 23" W. Framed: 27" H x 30 3/8" W. Note: the 1846 date for Meeker is very early in his painting career. Similar compositions and treatment of figures and architecture are seen in two 1849 dated Meeker paintings sold by Skinner on November 8, 2009, lots 35 and 36.

1st item: Painting overall good condition. Canvas has been wax-lined and re-stretched with some wear noted to upper margin, overall light cracklure. Frame with some slight scattered abrasions. 2nd item: Painting overall good condition. Canvas has been wax-lined and re-stretched, overall light cracklure. Frame with some slight scattered abrasions.