HASELTINE, William Stanley (American, 1835-1900). Country Road. c. 1861.

HASELTINE, William Stanley (American, 1835-1900)Country RoadOil on canvasSigned and dated lower left: "W.S. Haseltine, 1861"20" x 32 1/8" canvas, 27" x 39" framed Provenance: Phillips, New York: May 21, 2002 - $40,250. The 1800s were the century of landscape painting and the period in which America used the genre to find her identity. The variety and magnificence of her scenery lent itself beautifully to this field of painting and artists were quick to respond. In the East, the painters of the Hudson River School established and fostered the development of American landscape painting and in the West, an artists colony was established at Taos. Associated with the former school is the painter, William Stanley Haseltine. Born into an artistic Philadelphia family in 1835, Haseltine studied there under the direction of the German artist Paul Weber from the age of 15. Weber, who was deeply steeped in the Romantic movement already apparent in Europe instilled the same sentiments in the work