Wesley Vernier [1820-1881?]
United States > Ohio / California
The young student, ca.1860
Oil on canvas
12 x 10 inches [unframed] | 21 x 19 inches [framed]
Signed at lower left : ‘Vernier.’.

CONDITION:
Unrestored original condition with original period frame.

DESCRIPTION:
There are only two known paintings by the artist Wesley Vernier [1820-1881?].  The young student, ca.1860 was just the second known work from Vernier ever discovered.  The first is a painting of a pear in the Los Angeles Museum of Art.  Vernier was born in Ohio in 1820 and moved to California in ca.1860. The young student, ca.1860 was likely painted in California based on the light coming into the window.  This would be one of the earliest California paintings known when a few painters settled ca.1878 on the West coast.

PROVENANCE:
1990 ( David Smernoff, New Haven, CT & New York, NY ) ;
before 1990 Private collection of [withheld], Portsmith, NH ;
ca.1860 Wesley Vernier [1820-1881?], the artist .

EXHIBITIONS:
2020 David Smernoff, New York, NY, “Tiny moments : the life of genre painting”, November 15 – December 31.