ARTIST: Thaddeus Welch (California, Indiana, 1844 - 1919)
NAME: Hilly Landscape with Cows
YEAR: 1904
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Craquelure and flaking in sky area. No visible inpaint under UV light. Wear to frame.
SIGHT SIZE: 14 x 24 inches / 35 x 60 cm
FRAME SIZE: 18 x 27 inches / 45 x 68 c
SIGNATURE: lower left
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
As a young child, Welch crossed the plains in a covered wagon and settled in Oregon where he lived until he moved to California in the 1860s. His talent for art won him a scholarship to Munich in the 1870s and he remained abroad for several years, befriending Frank Duveneck and William Merritt Chase among others. During the decade of the 1880s and part of the '90s Welch roamed the country working on various art projects.He settled down in Marin County towards the end of the century. He received his first real measure of prosperity painting the rolling hills of Marin in a more realistic style than his earlier Munich-inspired works. By 1906 he was esteemed as a painter of "distant hills in sunlight, rich and warm foreground with cattle, trees and grasses" to quote Will Sparks writing in the San Francisco Call (September 2, 1906). The great charm of Welch's Marin paintings spawned a tradition of beautiful hillside landscapes that was carried well into the 20th century by such artists as Jack Wisby and Louis Rea. In 1905 he moved to Santa Barbara where the warmer climate restored his failing health. He continued to paint Marin County scenes-as well as the hills near his studio in Santa Barbara-until his death in 1919.