Oil on cradled panel, signed and dated 1892 at lower right, retaining remnants of an exhibition label to the verso, presented in the likely original gilt composition frame.

SS 24.75 x 17.25 in.; DOA 35.5 x 27 in.

Exhibited:
The Woman's Art Club of New York, Klackner's Gallery, Fifth Annual Exhibition, February 1894.

Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, Omaha, NE, June 1 - November 1, 1898.

Born in New York, Caroline Coventry Haynes was educated at Mrs. Sylvanus Reed's School in the city. She also studied at the Art Students' League before leaving for Paris where she studied painting under Adolphe William Bougyereau, Alfred Stevens, and Gustave-Claude-Étienne Courtois.

She returned to New York in 1902 and devoted herself to the study of cryptogamic botany at the New York Botanical Garden. She published extensively in her field and was an avid collector of Hepaticae, small mosslike plants. In 1942, she presented most of her collection to Harvard University, however, the UNC Herbarium has catalogued to date about ten specimens collected by Miss Haynes.

Over-cleaned; obscuring varnish visible under UV inspection with minor scattered re-touch; craquelure; minor stable age cracks to frame.

$1,500 - 2,500