Antique Fredericksburg Texas Landscape w/Bluebonnets by Mrs. N.L. Biggers (1871-1957)

• An original oil on canvas panel by Nettie Lee Biggers (Cox) 1871-1957
• In its original wood frame
• Signed on panel at lower left "N. L. Biggers" with what looks to be a date underneath that is partially covered by the frame
• Handwritten on the reverse: "Mrs. N. L. Biggers / Fredericksburg, Tex. / original Landscape / in Oil / near San Antonio, Tex."
• Mrs. N. L. Biggers appears on an exhaustive list of known/researched Texas female artists at the Texas Female Artists Organization
• Reverse bears the gallery tag of Fred Hummert Co. at 517 E. Houston Street in San Antonio, Texas
• The Fred Hummert Picture Gallery in San Antonio represented noted Texas artists of the period like the Onderdonks 

Some surface wear and soiling ☆ would benefit from cleaning/conservation

Dimensions (Panel): 19"W x 14"H

Dimensions (Frame): 23.75"W x 17.5"H

BIGGERS, DON HAMPTON (1868–1957). Don H. Biggers, newspaper editor, satirist, and historian, the son of Samuel Washington and Elizabeth A. Biggers, was born in Meridian, Texas, on September 27, 1868. On October 5, 1890, he married Nettie Lee Cox. They were married for sixty-seven years and had five sons and a daughter. Biggers spent his later years roaming the Southwest with his wife, writing letters to politicians and editors to protest hypocrisy and injustice wherever he saw it. He died in Stephenville on December 11, 1957.