Hudson River School of Art Auction Ending 12/11

#10 – Framed Hendrik Dirk Van Elton (1829-1904) View of Bay with Boat & Figures. Signed "Hendrik Van Elten" oil on canvas in original, exquisite frame. AskArt Bio: Hendrik-Dirk Kruseman van Elten was born in Alkmaar, Holland in 1828. His earliest professional training in art was with Cornelius Lieste in Haarlem, Holland. Lieste was a successful landscape painter in the Dutch Romantic School of the nineteenth century. After extensive training with Lieste, van Elten toured Holland and northern Europe with stays in France, Germany and Belgium where he painted and toured museums in the major cities of the area. Shipping records and census information record van Elten in the New York area of the United States by 1865. Records at the National Academy of Design list Van Elten as a regular contributor to exhibitions in America’s premier and most prestigious public space, the National Gallery of Design, from 1866 to 1900. In 1871 van Elten was elected to the rank of Associate. In 1883 he was elected to the full rank of Academician of the National Academy of Design in New York City. While van Elten considered himself to be very much a New York City artist, he also traveled throughout the year and also maintained a summer home in an art colony in the Catskill Mountains near Ellenville, New York. A majority of his landscape work was done in the rural and forested areas of New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Van Elten also made a number of painting trips to the American West in the first half of the 1880s and in 1898 when he exhibited a body of landscape painting at the Art Club of Denver, Colorado. After 1876, van Elten was also a successful and popular printmaker. As a result of his excellent reviews, awards and popularity in Britain, he was elected to the Society of Painter-Etchers in London, England. Van Elten enjoyed a very successful career as a painter of meticulously rendered landscapes that captured the range of late 19th century landscape subject matter from farmsteads and cultivated terrain resplendent with a range of farm animals and the human figure, to wild and remote areas of old growth forests and isolated streams and springs unknown to civilization. In 1905, the year following his death In New York City, hundreds of his personal paintings stored in his studio were sold by the American Art Guild in New York City to benefit his estate. Since that time a number of these van Elten canvases have found their way into important public and private collections throughout the United States. In 2019 a rare group of three important American scene canvases from the 1905 American Art Guild sale were de-accessioned from the Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida, after the museum decided to emphasize contemporary art. All three paintings are now in a private American collection. He was the father of artist Elizabeth F. Duprez (Elizabeth F. Kruseman Van Elten). Hendrik-Dirk Kruseman van Elten is listed in a number of primary reference works on American painting including: The Artists Bluebook, Artists of the Litchfield Hills, American Art at the 1893 World’s Fair, the Annual Exhibition Records of the National Academy of Design, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Who Was Who in American Art, Next to Nature: Landscape Paintings from the National Academy of Design, and the Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827 – 1874. Sight: 13.5x22”, Overall: 23.5x32”. Auction Record: $30,720. Estimate: $4,000-$10,000. (See multiple photos for details and condition.)

Framed Hendrik Dirk Van Elton (1829-1904) View of Bay with Boat & Figures. Signed "Hendrik Van Elten" oil on canvas in original, exquisite frame. AskArt Bio: Hendrik-Dirk Kruseman van Elten was born in Alkmaar, Holland in 1828. His earliest professional training in art was with Cornelius Lieste in Haarlem, Holland. Lieste was a successful landscape painter in the Dutch Romantic School of the nineteenth century. After extensive training with Lieste, van Elten toured Holland and northern Europe with stays in France, Germany and Belgium where he painted and toured museums in the major cities of the area. Shipping records and census information record van Elten in the New York area of the United States by 1865. Records at the National Academy of Design list Van Elten as a regular contributor to exhibitions in America’s premier and most prestigious public space, the National Gallery of Design, from 1866 to 1900. In 1871 van Elten was elected to the rank of Associate. In 1883 he was elected to the full rank of Academician of the National Academy of Design in New York City. While van Elten considered himself to be very much a New York City artist, he also traveled throughout the year and also maintained a summer home in an art colony in the Catskill Mountains near Ellenville, New York. A majority of his landscape work was done in the rural and forested areas of New York, Connecticut, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Van Elten also made a number of painting trips to the American West in the first half of the 1880s and in 1898 when he exhibited a body of landscape painting at the Art Club of Denver, Colorado. After 1876, van Elten was also a successful and popular printmaker. As a result of his excellent reviews, awards and popularity in Britain, he was elected to the Society of Painter-Etchers in London, England. Van Elten enjoyed a very successful career as a painter of meticulously rendered landscapes that captured the range of late 19th century landscape subject matter from farmsteads and cultivated terrain resplendent with a range of farm animals and the human figure, to wild and remote areas of old growth forests and isolated streams and springs unknown to civilization. In 1905, the year following his death In New York City, hundreds of his personal paintings stored in his studio were sold by the American Art Guild in New York City to benefit his estate. Since that time a number of these van Elten canvases have found their way into important public and private collections throughout the United States. In 2019 a rare group of three important American scene canvases from the 1905 American Art Guild sale were de-accessioned from the Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida, after the museum decided to emphasize contemporary art. All three paintings are now in a private American collection. He was the father of artist Elizabeth F. Duprez (Elizabeth F. Kruseman Van Elten). Hendrik-Dirk Kruseman van Elten is listed in a number of primary reference works on American painting including: The Artists Bluebook, Artists of the Litchfield Hills, American Art at the 1893 World’s Fair, the Annual Exhibition Records of the National Academy of Design, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Who Was Who in American Art, Next to Nature: Landscape Paintings from the National Academy of Design, and the Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827 – 1874. Sight: 13.5x22”, Overall: 23.5x32”. Auction Record: $30,720. Estimate: $4,000-$10,000. (See multiple photos for details and condition.)

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