Attributed to
John Cleveley Sr.
(ca. 1712-1777)
View of a Seaport
ca. 1760
Oil on canvas
Overall: 27 x 48 in. ( 68.6 x 121.9 cm )
Framed: 33 3/4 × 54 3/4 × 4 1/4 in. (85.7 × 139.1 × 10.8 cm)
Framed: 33 3/4 × 54 3/4 × 4 1/4 in. (85.7 × 139.1 × 10.8 cm)
Gift of John MacGregor
1855.1
This painting was the first study of an original nature acquired by the New-York Historical Society in its first fifty years of collecting which was not a portrait, and it marks the inception of the landscape collection.
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