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Charles Allan Winter (1869-1942) Charles Winter was born in Cincinnati and studied at Cincinnati Art Academy and in Paris at the Academie Julian. He lived and painted in Gloucester, Massachusetts and exhibited at the Paris Salon and the Art Institute of Chicago. Along with impressionistic works, he also painted murals and did some illustrating. Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc. The Winchester Model 1886 The Winchester 1886 rifle was produced from 1886 to 1935. Those with serial numbers under 119,000 were made prior to 1899. The rifle was made in a number of caliber, including 33 W.C.F., 45-70, 45-90 and 50-100. Its serial number is found on the lower tang with “Model 1886″ on the upper tang. The 1886 has a total of about ten chamberings and a tubular magazine below its barrel. The [...] Click here to continue reading. Wilson A. “Snowflake” Bentley (1865-1931) Wilson A. Bentley, known as “Snowflake Bentley”, was born in Jericho, Vermont in 1865. Fascinated with the complexity and unique characteristics of snow crystals at an early age, Bentley made it his life’s mission to capture images of individual snowflakes. Bentley received a microscope for his fifteenth birthday, and by the time he was nineteen he had attached this microscope to a bellows camera and began producing photomicrographs of [...] Click here to continue reading. Lemuel Everett Wilmarth (1835-1918) Lemuel Wilmarth’s paintings reflect his classical training with Jean Leon Gerome in Paris. His carefully rendered works reflect the academic style of the nineteenth century Ecole des Beaux Arts. Known principally for genre and history scenes, he also painted still life. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design from 1866 to 1893 with other well-known still life artists including George Henry Hall, William Mason Brown and Paul Lacroix, and [...] Click here to continue reading. T. H. Willson & Co. Pottery The first stoneware manufactured in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, came from the T. H. Willson & Co. pottery opened in 1852 by the brothers Thomas and Daniel Willson. They marked their wares “T. H. WILLSON & CO/HARRISBURG, PA” from that year until 1855. During this period they sometimes also marked their output with a stylized version of the new State Capitol building located in Harrisburg. The pottery is known for [...] Click here to continue reading. Thomas H. Willis (1850-1925) Born in Connecticut in 1850, the marine artist Thomas Willis worked for a silk embroidery threadmaker in 1870 in Brooklyn. He became one of the finest American marine embroiderers and advertised as the “Inventor and sole maker of silk ware pictures”. He had numerous commissions from yachtsmen, sailors, sea captains, tug and ship companies, and others related to the maritime world. He used silk or satin in the sails [...] Click here to continue reading. John Insco Williams (1813-1873) John Insco Williams (1813-1873), was born in Greene County, Ohio, and raised on a farm in Wayne County, Indiana. He apprenticed to a house and carriage painter in Richmond, but quit and spent several years as a laborer in Montgomery County, Ohio. He then worked as an itinerant painter in Ohio and Indiana before heading to Philadelphia to study under Thomas Sully and Russell Smith. In 1841, he opened a [...] Click here to continue reading. John Whorf (1903-1959) John Whorf was born in Massachusetts in 1903. His initial art training came from his father who was a commercial artist and graphic designer. When he was 14 he was enrolled to study painting at the Boston Museum School and with Sherman Kidd at the St. Botolph Studio. From there he went to Provincetown and studied with Charles Hawthorne at the Cape School. Later he went to France and took training [...] Click here to continue reading. Frederick Ballard Williams (1871 – 1956) A painter of romantic and decorative canvases, Frederick Ballard Williams began his career by painting with rich, thick pigment, landscapes with women, usually in gorgeous 18th-century gowns of brilliant color. These works reflected his exposure to the French rococo painting of Antoine Watteau. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was educated in the public schools of Bloomfield and Montclair, New Jersey, and took night art classes [...] Click here to continue reading. David Marshal “Carbine” Williams A North Carolinian, universally known as “Carbine”, was born in 1900, Marsh Williams. Declining higher education and in 1921, he chose to operate a whiskey still around the Godwin area in the lowlands near Fayetteville, NC. Deputy Sheriff Al Pate led a raid on Williams’ still and was slain during the gun battle that raged at the still. Williams was tried and the jury was hung. He was tried a [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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