Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd has dated this Victorian Floral Oil Painting to the Victorian era.
Style realism.
Subject still life scene of beautiful Chrysanthemums in purple & white colours with a golden yellow centre set in magnificent green glazed vase. Some of the petals have fallen onto the table along with a few flower heads, the window sill curtain is draped closed over at the back.
The beautiful multi colours, the individual flower petals are so vivid & lifelike, the vase looks so real especially with the light shine showing on it & the textures, totally amazing detail which you will treasure as a family heirloom and love!
Signed by the known listed American artist Emily Selinger.
Oil on canvas with a protective board cover on the back.
Title Still Life, “Vase of Chrysanthemums” By Emily Selinger.
In our opinion this is one of her very finest works.
Such a sought after by private collectors, interior designers, galleries & museums.
Origin from the USA.
Set in a rather attractive later stylish decorative gilt moulded frame which enhances this painting even further.
With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home display.
Circa late 19th century Victorian era.
Artist biography Emily Selinger (née, McGary; February 22, 1848 – July 16, 1927) was an American painter of still life and floral, author of travel writing and poetry, and an educator. Emily Harris McGary] was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, February 22, 1848.
Her parents were James and Elizabeth Otis Paine (Keller) McGary. She was a descendant on her father's side of Flora McDonald. Her father, a planter, amassed a fortune in the East India trade. He died just before the American Civil War, and his family were stripped of the large fortune left them through the mismanagement of a relative and by the war. The mother took her three young daughters to Providence, Rhode Island, to educate them. Selinger was a precocious child, showing aptitude for anything in the line of music, art and language. She finished the high school course in Providence, studied with private tutors, and ended with a course in the Cooper Institute School of Design in New York City. With art, she studied medicine, but decided not to attempt to practice in that field.
At the age of nineteen, she taught in southern schools, acting as instructor in painting, drawing, elocution, botany, French and Latin for seven years in various institutions. While teaching in Louisville, Kentucky, she read a paper on "Art Education" before a gathering of five-hundred teachers, which resulted in the establishment of a normal art-school in that city, of which she was principal. Ill-health compelled her to go north, and she returned to Providence, where she opened a studio. In Providence, on October 9, 1882, she married Jean Paul Selinger (1850–1909), the artist. From 1882 to 1885, they traveled in Europe, studying in Italy, and while abroad Mrs. Selinger corresponded for the Boston Transcript.
She became a student of flower-painting, and earned the title "Emily Selinger, the Rose Painter." Returning to the United States, Mr. and Mrs. Selinger settled in Boston, Massachusetts. Her work was popular, and her rose pictures were found in notable collection in the U.S. She was also a successful author. She was a member of the New England Woman's Press Association, as well as an honorary artist member of the Professional Woman's Club. She had summer studios in New Hampshire; from the mid 1880s, at Glen House, and from 1894, at Crawford House. Selinger exhibited at the Academy of Design (New York), Boston Art Club, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Selinger was awarded the silver medal twice at the Mechanics' Association exhibits, a
Cheshire Antiques Consultant Ltd has dated this Victorian Floral Oil Painting to the Victorian era.
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Victorian Oil Painting Flowers Chrysanthemums Vase by Emily Selinger
