MH Bancroft Painting "Val de Grace" American Impressionist Painter in Paris 1890's

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Artist: Milton Herbert Bancroft
Title: Val De Grace Paris - Morning
Size: 12" x 18" - Framed: 18" x 24"
Date: circa 1896
Condition: Good, shows some minor restoration (repair in top right corner as seen in photo). No signs of other restoration under UV light.
Framed
Price: $4,800


RARE AND IMPORTANT PAINTING

Suppose you were in the market for a charming French Impressionist painting of a Paris street scene circa 1890's....

Sure, you can buy a decent (and very small) Monet starting around $800K.

But....if you were really smart, you would consider this EXQUISITE JEWEL of a painting by one of Monet's neighbors in Giverny circa 1895 - Milton Herbert Bancroft....

Bancroft was one of the early American Impressionists in Paris during this time, influenced by the circle of John Singer Sargent, James Whistler, and peers such as Guy Rose.

This painting depicts Val De Grace cathedral on a foggy morning in the mid 1890's. This painting really makes you FEEL the atmosphere...transporting us to a very different time and place...

Occasionally you may find a painting by Bancroft come up at auction. However, there are few true comparables to this example. This painting would probably fetch $8,000-10,000 at Christie's or Sotheby's these days (plus 25% buyers premium).

Born in 1867 in Newton, Massachusetts, Milton Bancroft became an Impressionist painter of portraits, landscapes, figures, and murals. He was much influenced by his stay at Giverny, France where he adopted the effects of sun dappled light on figures and landscape that were espoused by Richard Miller, Louis Ritman, Frederick Frieseke, and George Biddle.

He attended Massachusetts Normal Academy School in Boston, and from 1883 to 1886, studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. From 1886 to 1892, he taught at Swathmore College and served briefly as Superintendent at the Pennsylvania Academy.

In 1894, he left for Europe and spent five years of intense training in Paris, studying with Louis Giradot and Gustave Courtois at the Colarossi. Returning to the United States, he earned much respect for his talents and was commissioned to do a mural, Court of the Seasons, for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.

Source:
David Dearinger, Painting and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design, p. 26


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• Panama Pacific Exposition