ATTRIBUTED TO AARON DRAPER SHATTUCK (American 1832-1928)

Description

ATTRIBUTED TO AARON DRAPER SHATTUCK (American 1832-1928)
Pansies in a Vase, c.1860
Oil on canvas
10.5in. x 7.5in. (sight size). Framed
Not signed
Provenance: Family of the artist

Born in Francestown, New Hampshire, Aaron Shattuck was educated there and also in Lowell, Massachusetts. He studied portrait and landscape painting with Alexander Ramson in Boston in 1851, and then relocated to New York City, where he studied at the National Academy of Design. Aaron Draper Shattuck is ranked among the best artists of the second generation of the Hudson River School. He exhibited regularly with his peers John Kensett, John Casilear, Jasper Cropsey, and Samuel Colman.

Shattuck was at his best in smaller canvases where his love of nature was translated into small, detailed paintings. Married to the sister of artist Samuel Colman, Shattuck was one of the first artists to paint on Monhegan Island in Maine. He was also an inventor of note, and had several patents, among them metal stretcher keys, and a tobacco barn ventilation system. When Shattuck's eyesight deteriorated in 1888, he finished his life as a violin maker. In 1856 Shattuck was elected associate member of the National Academy, and in 1861, he was elected a full National Academician.

Keywords: Hudson River, school, still life, flower, oil , painting

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