Sun Setting on the Ocean, oil on canvas, 30"x24"

Born October 1, 1819 in Ireland. Settled in Philadelphia at 15. Studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts while working as a professor of drawing. Painted many scenes of New York to Maryland. Admired English landscape painter J.M.W. Turner, who painted “vivid lighting effects in coastal scenes,” and became known as the “American Turner.”

Exhibited for the first time in 1840 at the Artists’ Fund Society as well as in Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, and Washington, D.C.

In the collection of: Oakland Museum of California; Wadsworth Atheneum; Yale University Art Gallery; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art; Delaware Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Washington County Museum of Fine Arts; Newark Museum; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Butler Institute of American Art; Pennsylvania Acadmey of Fine Arts; Reading Public Museum; and Chrysler Museum of Art.

In the collection of: Oakland Museum of California; Wadsworth Atheneum; Yale University Art Gallery; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Sewell C. Biggs Museum of American Art; Delaware Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Washington County Museum of Fine Arts; Newark Museum; Brooklyn Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Butler Institute of American Art; Pennsylvania Acadmey of Fine Arts; Reading Public Museum; and Chrysler Museum of Art.