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Venetian Sails

Catalog no. 0000851

MediumOil on Canvas
Size23 x 17 Inches
SignedSigned LR: F.A. Silva
DateCirca 1879

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About the artist

Born in New York City, F.A. Silva was forbidden to paint artistically by his father so he became a successful sign painter. Unfulfilled, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in the New York State Militia, serving until 1866. Soon after the war he listed himself as ‘artist’ in New York, devoting himself to marine views. Essentially self taught, early success awarded him the privilege of exhibiting with the National Academy of Design, the Brooklyn Academy of Art and the American Institute of Art. Traveling frequently to his favored locations for subject matter, Silva’s works often…

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