Painting of Venice by Edward F.D.Pritchard,c.1890. The painting is 9.5 x 13 in a frame 16.5 x 20 inches./////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////(From Askart.com):"Edward Pritchard was born in December 1864 in Wales, and came to the US around 1871. He married an Irish immigrant named Helen (maiden name unknown) in 1886. Helen bore a daughter, Ethel, in 1887. In 1900, the family lived in Elizabeth, New Jersey. By 1910 they were living in Orange, New Jersey. By 1920, the family, including the already widowed daughter Ethel, lived in Brooklyn, and still lived at that address in 1930, where Pritchard continued to be active as an artist. Edward Pritchard died sometime in the 1930s; the exact date of death is not known. As a side line, he may have also given music lessons.".//////////////////////////////////////David's notes:Pritchard excelled at nautical painting at a time when works of the ocean and sea were at a premium in America and England.This is still before plane travel became commonplace and most travel between countries were done on ocean liners, boats and ships.This present lot shows the San Giorgio Maggiore.The work is not signed by the artist but there is a partial fragment of a piece of paper label identifying the artist, and the style and composition fit exactly with other works by Pritchard of Venice.Pritchard's prices at auction start at a few hundred dollars and go in the the hundreds of thousands.

Good condition overall