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JAMES BRADE SWORD O/C 1870S LANDSCAPE PAINTING
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This wonderful landscape and genre painting by James Brade Sword (American, b. 1839-1915 Philadelphia)is oil on canvas laid on board in a period frame. The painting was done in the 1870s and depicts a park scene in Jamestown, Rhode Island, which was a fashionable summer colony frequented by social Philadelphians. Dimensions: 14 x 22 inches, sight size; 19 x 27 inches, framed. The painting is signed by the artist on the lower right and also on the back with the location of the scene. Sword was a landscape, portrait and genre painter who studied at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and with George W. Nicholson and W.T. Richards. As a boy, he was raised in Macao, China, and attended high school in Philadelphia. He quit school in 1855 to become a civil engineer, working on various canal and tunnel projects. During the early 1860s, he turned to painting as a profession and soon became prominent in Philadelphia's art organizations. Sword was a member of the Philadelphia Artists Fund Society, President of the Philadelphia Society of the Arts, and founder of the Art Club of Philadelphia, serving for many years as its vice-president and director. He exhibited widely at venues including Brooklyn Artists Association, National Academy of Design, PA Academy of the Fine Arts, and Boston Art Club. Sword painted along the New England and Mid-Atlantic shores and in the Adirondack mountains. His portrait of John W. Jones is in the House of Representatives in Washington, DC. The artist is listed in "Who Was Who in American Art.
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