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On the St. Annes, East Canada

1863, 1865
oil on canvas
9 1/8 x 15 in. (23.2 x 38.1 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Pompeii

1855
oil on canvas
21 x 17 in. (53.3 x 43.2 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
were popular among nineteenth-century American patrons, who made the ancient city at the foot of Vesuvius a stop on their grand tours.
GAAnonymous
Portrait of Freeman Cary

ca. 1856
oil on canvas
43 3/8 x 35 1/4 in. (110.2 x 89.5 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Remembrances of a Scene near Auerbach

ca. 1856
oil on canvas
13 1/2 x 18 3/8 in. (34.3 x 46.7 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Romantic Landscape

1871
oil on canvas
7 1/8 x 19 in. (18.1 x 48.3 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Roses Still Life

ca. 1842-1848
oil on canvas
24 x 19 in. (61.0 x 48.3 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Roses--Fancy Still Life, Still Life with Roses

ca. 1842-1848
oil on paperboard
10 3/4 x 15 1/8 in. (27.3 x 38.4 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Scotch Highlands

ca. 1848-1852
oil on canvas
27 1/4 x 42 1/4 in. (69.2 x 107.3 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

 GAAnonymous
Scottish Landscape

1871
oil on canvas
29 5/8 x 50 in. (75.4 x 127 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
Robert S. Duncanson made several trips to Scotland, probably inspired by his father's Scottish heritage. He created romantic wilderness views that may have been influenced by the novels and poems of Sir Walter Scott. In this piece the warm colors and rich vegetation make a remote scene appear welcoming, and would have appealed to the sentimental...
GAAnonymous
Valley Pasture

1857
oil on canvas
32 1/4 x 48 in. (81.9 x 121.9 cm.)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

notes
rms. This might represent the promised land of freedom that escaped slaves in the 1850s hoped to reach by swimming across the Ohio River to the free states of the North.
GAAnonymous
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