Author: SELLSTEDT, LARS GUSTAF
Title: From Forecastle to Academy: Sailor and Artist; Autobiography by Lars Gustaf Sellstedt
Description: Buffalo, NY: The Matthews-Northrup Works, 1904. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Lars Gustaf Sellstedt. Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, photographic paste-down on cover, t.e.g, fore and bottom edges deckle, brown endpapers. Generously illustrated with ten tissue-protected color facsimile plates and seven reproductions in monograph made from Mr. Sellstedt's paintings by direct photographic process. NB: Lars Gustaf Sellstedt (1819-1911) was one of the most important painters in nineteenth-century Buffalo. He was born in Sundsvall, Sweden and immigrated to the United States in 1834 where he worked as a merchant seaman on the Great Lakes. He settled in Buffalo in 1846 and taught himself to paint, opening a portrait studio a few years later. He studied the human figure at the Buffalo Medical College, which opened in 1847. In 1856 he married Caroline Scott, daughter of an area physician, and with his newfound social prominence came several high-profile commissions. He painted portraits of many important citizens of Buffalo including Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) and Millard Filmore (1800-1874). Aside from his paying work as a portraitist, Sellstedt's primary subject matter was the sea, represented in both his major paintings and in his autobiography, From Forecastle to Academy, Sailor and Artist (1904). Some very light scratches and shelf-wear on cover, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean, with strong hinges. NEAR FINE. Color Plates. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: Biography Autobiography Artists Lars Gustaf Sellstedt Art, Antiques & Photography Biography & Memoir Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books
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Title: From Forecastle to Academy: Sailor and Artist; Autobiography by Lars Gustaf Sellstedt
Description: Buffalo, NY: The Matthews-Northrup Works, 1904. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Lars Gustaf Sellstedt. Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, photographic paste-down on cover, t.e.g, fore and bottom edges deckle, brown endpapers. Generously illustrated with ten tissue-protected color facsimile plates and seven reproductions in monograph made from Mr. Sellstedt's paintings by direct photographic process. NB: Lars Gustaf Sellstedt (1819-1911) was one of the most important painters in nineteenth-century Buffalo. He was born in Sundsvall, Sweden and immigrated to the United States in 1834 where he worked as a merchant seaman on the Great Lakes. He settled in Buffalo in 1846 and taught himself to paint, opening a portrait studio a few years later. He studied the human figure at the Buffalo Medical College, which opened in 1847. In 1856 he married Caroline Scott, daughter of an area physician, and with his newfound social prominence came several high-profile commissions. He painted portraits of many important citizens of Buffalo including Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) and Millard Filmore (1800-1874). Aside from his paying work as a portraitist, Sellstedt's primary subject matter was the sea, represented in both his major paintings and in his autobiography, From Forecastle to Academy, Sailor and Artist (1904). Some very light scratches and shelf-wear on cover, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean, with strong hinges. NEAR FINE. Color Plates. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: Biography Autobiography Artists Lars Gustaf Sellstedt Art, Antiques & Photography Biography & Memoir Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books
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- Book number: 29952
- Book number: 29952
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