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Waterfall on Mont-Morency 1864 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | ||
Vulture and Its Prey 1844 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | ||
Vesuvius and Pompeii 1870 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Robert S. Duncanson spent a significant amount of time in Italy, and painted several views of Pompeii. Pompeii's dramatic history and the lure of Mount Vesuvius's still violent potential brought many artists to the area in the nineteenth century. This image shows the remains of an amphitheater, with Vesuvius smoking in the background. Duncanson... | GA | Anonymous | |
Valley Pasture 1857 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | 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. | GA | Anonymous | |
Scottish Landscape 1871 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | 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... | GA | Anonymous | |
Scotch Highlands ca. 1848-1852 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | ||
Roses--Fancy Still Life, Still Life with Roses ca. 1842-1848 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | ||
Roses Still Life ca. 1842-1848 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | ||
Romantic Landscape 1871 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | ||
Remembrances of a Scene near Auerbach ca. 1856 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous |
- Robert Scott Duncanson