George Henry BurgessAntique c1860's Original Oil On Canvas Landscape Painting
Original Oil On Canvas Landscape Painting. Carved Wood Gold Gilded Gallery Frame Ready To Hang!
Artist Signed lower left hand side. One small patch on verso but does not effect the frontal view what so ever! MEASURES: Framed- 26" x 21" - Unframed- 20" x 15". Burgess was born in London, into a large family of artists. He studied at the Somerset House School of Design in that city.
In 1849, he traveled to California to join the Gold rush. Having tried his hand at mining and lithography, he and his brother Hubert set up a jewelry shop in Sonora, repairing watches and fashioning jewelry. George traveled extensively through the gold rush country, chronicling his experiences through watercolor paintings.George's brothers Charles Burgess and Edward Burgess lived in Honolulu for various periods of time. In California, George made a living as a portrait artist, but remains best known for his paintings of the gold rush. He was a founding member of the San Francisco Art Association in 1871 and died in Berkeley, California.
The Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth), Texas, the Bancroft Library (University of California, Berkeley), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California (Oakland, California) and the Yosemite Museum (Yosemite National Park, California) are among the public collections holding works by George Henry Burgess.