Edward Lamson Henry (1841 – 1913)
Posted by Suzay Lamb on February 3, 2013
A Country Lawyer
One Sunday Afternoon
Waiting For The Stagecoach – Mrs. Fanny Wells
Miss X And Sister
The King Of The Montauks
Bear Hill
Afternoon Quiet – Woman With Baby
Nearing The Bend
An Informal Call – Return To The Farm
The Sunny Hours of Childhood
The Old Clock On The Stairs
The Meeting Of General Washington And Rochambeau
An October Day – Cragsmoor Post Office
The Old Westover House
La Paresseuse – The Idle One
Interior
Motherhood
In The Roaring Forties
The Conversation
Changing Horses
Westover, Virginia
Stagecoach
What’s That You Say?
Meditating Revenge
A Philadelphia Doorway
The Camden And Amboy Railroad With The Engine Planet In 1834
Station On The Morris And Essex Railroad
The North Dutch Church, Fulton And William Streets, New York
Leaving Home
The Pillory And Whipping Post, New Castle, Delaware
The Ferry Crossing At Von Steuben Tavern
St. Mark’s In The Bowery In The Early Forties
An Old Friend
Bruce said
Henry apparently had some emotional attachment to the Westover Plantation on the James River in Virginia, painting it twice: “The Old Westover House” and “Westover, Virginia.” The two paintings are nearly identical and portray the period during the Civil War when the house and grounds were used at the headquarters of the Union Fifth Corps. Note the damage to the far wing and to the fence in front of the property in both paintings. See the signal team on top of the house in one version and the sentry/sniper up there in the other.
There’s an interesting account of this artist and these paintings in “Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art” by Angela D. Mack and Stephen G. Hoffius. If you are lucky like I was, go to http://books.google.com/books?id=wgc6Hr2Pg2IC, click “Preview this book,” and see if you can pick up the story on page 53. Or, you can always buy the book or see if the library has it!