Antique WILLIAM BILS Signed Impressionist Forest Scene Oil on Board, signature to lower right reads W. BILS, verso reads W. BILS OCTOBER 1929, shows an impressionist view of a forest, frame measures 17 1/2 x 16 inches, window measures 13 1/2 x 12 inches, gold and brown toned wood frame, surface wear to frame, professionally framed, not examined out of frame. William Bils [1872-1944] was a German-born landscape painter who settled in Brooklyn, NY. Bils training is unknown but he may have been trained in Paris, living in Drancy, Paris and in his native Germany. His work was influenced by the Düsseldorf school and Barbizon school of painting which could indicate that he comes from Dusseldorf. Bils appears in Brooklyn newspapers as a renter of rooms in his home, seven bedrooms, near Prospect Park, Brooklyn at 628 Bergen Street in 1911 and 1912. Prospect Park, most probably due to its proximity became the artists prime subject for his art work. Bils had a wife, Anna Bils, a son that past before reaching the age of one (also named