TitleThe Housatonic, New Milford, Connecticut
Artist
James Renwick Brevoort
(American, 1832 - 1918)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 14 × 24 in.
SignedSigned lower right: "J. R. Brevoort"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, April 6, 1864
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number158-P
Label TextBrevoort exhibited a painting titled The Housatonic, Near Milford in the Boston Athenaem exhibition of 1864; the work was available for sale. It is possible that this work, failing to attain a patron, became the artist's presentation to the Academy. The present title, which it carried by the 1911 publication of the Academy's collection, may have been a mis-reading of some original label. However, the then-village of New Milford near the western boundary of Connecticut is directly situated on the Housatonic River; Milford is on the state's southern shore, approximately three miles east of the point where the Housatonic opens into Long Island Sound.
