Oil on canvas (lined), signed at lower right, presented in a custom period giltwood frame by William Riel (Kingston, NY) circa 1915.

Stretcher size 12 x 10 in. Frame dimensions 19 x 16 3/4 in.

Kingston, New York-born artist Julia Dillon studied at the Clinton Liberal Institute in New York, under Mary Conkey and Sarah Hutchins. At the age of 38, she traveled to Europe, working with Georges Jeannin and Harry Thompson in Paris. Afterward, she returned to Kingston and painted in a studio on the Rondout. In the 1880s, Julia moved to New York City and painted at the famed 10th Street Studio Building. In 1882, she illustrated The Artist's Year, a book of poems and drawings. By 1900, she returned to Kingston and established a studio where she taught, painted, wrote, and illustrated until her death.

Dillon's works have been exhibited in the National Academy of Design, the Brooklyn Art Association, the Boston Art Club, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Columbian Exhibition of 1892 in Chicago, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.

Small patched whole visible en verso with associated retouching, age cracking, some flaking, some losses to canvas visible en verso; frame has been re-painted, minor scattered retouching.