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Charles Louis Heyde(1822-1892)On Otter Creek near Brooksville, Vermont
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Jelena James
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Claire Dettelbach
Cataloguer

Jewel Bernier
Cataloguer
Charles Louis Heyde (1822-1892)
titled, signed, and dated 'Heyde painter / 1885' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas, in its original frame
16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Painted in 1885.
Footnotes
Provenance
From the Meacham Family Collection, Cleveland, Ohio.
Thence by descent.
N.B.
Charles Louis Heyde was one of Vermont's most celebrated and beloved 19th-century painters. He painted and lived for a time in New Jersey and Brooklyn, exhibiting at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Boston Athenaeum. Shortly after marrying Walt Whitman's sister, Hannah, in 1852, the couple moved to Vermont, where Heyde finally found the inspiring landscape for which he had been searching. He set up a studio in Burlington and continued painting throughout the state and along the Connecticut River Valley.
The 112-mile Otter Creek, the subject of the present work, is the longest river entirely contained within Vermont's borders. It runs from southern to northern Vermont, beginning near Mt. Tabor and passing through Rutland, Brandon, Middlebury, and Vergennes before emptying into Lake Champlain. It has been an important location for trade, travel, and leisure for thousands of years. The location in the present work is in Brooksville, just north of Middlebury. Heyde painted this locale a number of times, although the present work is unique for being both dated and inscribed with the location, offering an opportunity to better understand Heyde's larger oeuvre.
We would like to thank Thomas Pierce, co-author of Charles Louis Heyde: Nineteenth-Century Vermont Landscape Painter (Burlington, VT: Robert Hull Fleming Museum, 2001), for his kind assistance in cataloguing this lot.
























