Four Wallace Nutting (Massachusetts, RI, 1861 - 1941) Hand Colored Framed Photographs. In frames they measure 8"x5 1/2, 8"x10", 10"x12" and 16 1/2"x14 1/2. Weight on all combined 5 pds 6 oz. PROVENANCE: A Charleston SC Private Estate. Wallace Nutting was a U.S. minister, photographer, artist, and antiquarian, who is most famous for his landscape photos of New England. He also was an accomplished author, lecturer, furniture maker, antiques expert and collector. His atmospheric photographs helped spur the Colonial Revival style. Wallace Nutting graduated from high school in Augusta, Maine. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University, Hartford Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary. He graduated from Harvard with the class of 1887. Nutting earned a Doctor of Divinity degree from Whitman College in 1893.He received an honorary doctor of Humanities from Washington and Jefferson College in 1938. Nutting authored several books about the scenic beauties of New England, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. In the peak of his business he employed about two-hundred colorists.

good, some wear to frames