Daniel Fogler Bigelow (American, 1823-1910), Rural Landscape with Church Steeple

Oil on canvas, signed at the lower left, framed.

Stretcher size 12 1/4 x 18 1/4 in.; Frame dimensions 19 1/2 x 25 1/4 in.

Daniel Folger Bigelow was an American landscape and still life painter who became a well-known figure in Chicago’s nineteenth-century art community. Born in Clinton County, New York, he is said to have received his earliest artistic instruction from a cousin of the sculptor Hiram Powers. Bigelow moved to Chicago in 1858, where he gained considerable reputation as a landscape painter and developed close associations with G. P. A. Healy and the group of artists who founded the Chicago Academy of Design, later known as the Art Institute of Chicago. Many of his landscapes depict scenes from New York and New England, painted for Chicago patrons with strong eastern ties.

Good estate condition, craquelure, a few minor cracks to the frame.