10. Frederick Stuart Church (American, 1842-1924)

Girl With Flamingos.
Oil on canvas, signed lower right, dated 1916, framed.
15" x 22".

3,000/6,000     SOLD: $3,450.00

The American painter Frederick Stuart Church enjoyed a distinguished career as one of the premier magazine illustrators of his period. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Church went to New York as a young man, and trained under Walter Shirlaw and L. E. Wilmarth at the Art Students League and at the National Academy of Design.

Church pursued a painting career simultaneously with his work as an illustrator. He exhibited in Chicago, showed regularly in New York, and in 1904 won a gold medal in the annual Saint Louis exhibition.

His paintings have a strong period flavor, often featuring beautiful girls and slightly wistful romantic subjects which were tremendously popular in the later Victorian period. Frequently Church gave his subjects a hint of something exotic. In the present work, which is extremely colorful, Church included a flock of flamingos rather than more traditional water birds.

Condition: Crazing in background, relined, only a few spots of inpainting.