Dennis Miller Bunker (American, 1861-1890), Salt Marsh

Oil on canvas (lined), monogrammed "DB" at lower right, presented in a 19th century gilt frame.

Stretcher size 10 x 18 in.; Frame dimensions 15 3/4 x 23 3/4 in.

Dennis Miller Bunker was born in New York City and became one of the leading American painters of his generation before his death at the age of twenty-nine. After studying at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League under William Merritt Chase, he continued his training in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts with Jean-Léon Gérôme. Returning to the United States in 1884, Bunker taught at the Cowles Art School in Boston, where he influenced artists including Lilla Cabot Perry and William McGregor Paxton. Associated with painters such as John Singer Sargent and Abbott Handerson Thayer, Bunker developed a style that moved from Barbizon tonalism toward Impressionism, helping bring more modern approaches to American landscape painting.

Age cracking to frame; repaired tears with associated retouch in sky at right of composition; conservation report from Colin Post attached to the verso.

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