NAME: Manor House

ARTIST: Benjamin Egglestin (New York, Minnesota, 1867 - 1937) NAME: Manor House MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Some paint losses mostly along right edge. Some craquelure. Some minor scattered inpaintings mostly along right edge. SIGHT SIZE: ches / FRAME SIZE: ches / SIGNATURE: lower left SKU#: 118290 US Shipping $75 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Benjamin Osro Eggleston, born at Belvidere, Minnesota on January 22, 1867 was the son of Hubert Newberry Eggleston, a Union Army sergeant, and Caroline Nelson Eggleston. His father received a soldier's homestead tract in Redwood County, Minnesota. During his elementary years, Benjamin demonstrated talent and he was encouraged through high school. Later, he moved to Red Wing, a picturesque town about forty miles from Minneapolis, on the Mississippi River, to open a studio for teaching and for painting portraits. After having saved some money, Eggleston enrolled in the recently organized Minneapolis School of Fine Art where he studied under the portrait and history painter Douglas Volk (1856-1935), the son of the sculptor Leonard Wells Volk (1828-1895). Douglas Volk came to Minneapolis in 1868 as first di

Date

1938

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

painting

Original size

1,500 × 1,252 pixels

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