Frank Hill Smith (American, 1842-1904): View of the Charles River, oil on canvas, signed lower left, framed. Small excerpt from exhibition catalog attached verso. Exhibition unknown.

Frank Hill Smith's works in oil include portraits, figure-pieces, and landscapes. He worked in the style now known as "luminist." In the course of his studies in Europe he gave much attention to interior decoration, sketching many famous interiors. In the later years of his activity, he devoted himself especially to this branch of art. He decorated numerous public and private buildings in Boston and Cambridge and other cities. The Windsor Hotel and Opera House in Holyoke are often given as examples of his work, as is the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was a director of the school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

Dimensions: 12 x 20.5 inches canvas. 17 x 25 inches framed.

From a Massachusetts estate.

Good aged condition, painting has been cleaned, there is a light amount of craquelure over the surface.
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