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Antique Maine Artist George McConnell Oil on Canvas Painting
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Up for sale today is this Antique Maine Artist George McConnell Oil on Canvas Painting. The painting looks to have been cut out of the original stretcher and glued down to a board. The canvas has been lifted of the board and is ready to re attach to a more stable backing. Painting is in good condition with a little paint loss where it was lifted (lower left). Very well executed Maine or New Hampshire country side landscape. Painting is signed lower left Geo McConnell 1918. Measures approx 13" x 8".
George McConnell (1851 - 1929) was born in Steubenville, OH in May 1851 and died in Portland, ME in 1929. He is buried in Scarborough Maine. He studied portraiture in Philadelphia and New York. He also studied landscape painting with George Inness and continued his art training at the Academy Julien in Paris. In 1874 he painted a scene of the Amoskeag Woolen Mills in Manchester New Hampshire and is known to have painted portraits of Manchester residents in 1872 and 1876. He was listed in the 1875 Manchester city directory as an artist. In 1883, at the age of thirty-one, McConnell settled in Portland, Maine. He did commercial work that he sold at various hotels and resorts. He painted a great variety of subjects, including coast and seascapes around Portland as well as White Mountain Landscapes. His White Mountain paintings date from 1892 to 1922. His portraits hang in six state capitols, including Maine’s. McConnell was a frequent exhibitor at the Portland Society of Art.
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