Oil on canvas, signed "H.C. Ford 1874" in lower left, finely painted autumn scene with blazing red maple, presented in a period and likely original gilt composition frame.

SS 15.75 x 12.25 in.; DOA 24 x 20.5 in.

Private Collection, VA

Henry Chapman Ford, a Union Army veteran, was a founder of the Chicago Academy of Design. As a prolific landscape artist traveling the Midwest, South and West, he achieved considerable fame for his paintings of early California missions.

Small (.5 in.) repair in upper portion of the painting; the frame with a few chips and rub to the gilt.

$1,000 - 3,000