TitleAfter the Tempest, Morning
Artist
Arthur Quartley
(American, 1839 - 1886)
Date1879
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 26 1/4 × 44 1/4 in.
Framed: 36 × 54 × 2 7/8 in.
SignedSigned at lower left: "Arthur Quartley"
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of Mrs. Stephen H. Brown, 1942
Object number1037-P
Label TextBorn to English parents living in France. Arthur Quartley moved with them to London at age two. When he was fourteen the family immigrated to the United States, settling in Peekskill, New York. where his father, an engraver, taught him to draw. The artist first sent works to a National Academy of Design annual exhibition from Baltimore in 1875. By the next annual, in which three of his paintings were included, Quartley was resident of New York. There he rose speedily to fame as a painter of marine subjects. Quartley's daughter Grace donated this scene, painted near the Isle of Shoals, to the Academy in 1942.
