Antique LINGERING WATERS Signed by Wallace Nutting for sale in Sterling, Virginia

$79

Beautiful colors on this autumn landscape "Lingering Waters" photographed, colored, and signed by Wallace Nutting.This is one of three Wallace Nutting hand colored, signed photographs obtained from an estate in central Pennsylvania. "Lingering Waters" appears to be pen signed by Wallace Nutting. The original owner was a reverend, and perhaps the religious connection was one of the reasons he valued and collected Wallace Nuttings (I just discovered this bit of provenance connecting artist with collector when I read Nuttings history on wikipedia). . The frame, matting, and glazing are original and in very good condition, ready to be hung and enjoyed. Lingering Waters in frame measures approximately 22 1/2 by 16 1/2 inches with a picture measurement of 7 by 13 inches.
From Wikipedia:
Wallace Nutting (1861 - 1941) was a U.S. minister, photographer, artist, and antiquarian, who is most famous for his pictures. He also was an accomplished author, lecturer, furniture maker some of whose reproductions pass as antiques antiques expert and collector. His atmospheric photographs helped spur the Colonial Revival style.
He was born in Rockbottom, Massachusetts, on Sunday, November 17, 1861. He was descended from John Nutting, who came from England in 1639.
Wallace Nutting studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard University, Hartford Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary. He graduated from Harvard with the class of 1887. On June 5, 1888 he married Mariet Griswold in Buckland, Massachusetts. They had no children.
Wallace Nutting started taking pictures in 1899 while on long bicycle rides in the countryside. In 1904 he opened the Wallace Nutting Art Prints Studio on East 23rd Street in New York. After a year he moved his business to a farm in Southbury, Connecticut. He called this place "Nuttinghame". In 1912 he moved the photography studio to Framingham, Massachusetts, in a home he called "Nuttingholme". Nutting authored several books about the scenic beauties of New England, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. In the peak of his business he employed about two-hundred colorists. By his own account, Wallace Nutting sold ten million pictures. Wallace Nutting's colorists painted the photographs which he took. These colorists would sometimes sign Wallace Nutting's name on the photos which is why the signatures vary. Wallace Nutting residence in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is also known as the Wentworth Gardner House. A Wallace Nutting Society exists for the study of his work.
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