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Item #AT-0493
William Ongley (1838-1890) Hunter and His Hound in The Adirondacks Forest
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Description:
William Ongley (1838-1890)
Hunter and His Hound in The Adirondacks Forest
Oil on Canvas
20 x 12 unframed
20.25 x 20.5 Framed
Period Gilt Frame
Provenance:
Thomas Vokes Gallery, Morristown, NJ
Private Collection NJ
Rare glorious oil Painting by Adirondacks artist William Ongley (1838-1890). It is masterfully painted with a hunter in the woods with his faithful dog resting upon a tree stump.
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The Utica Daily Observer published an obituary for William Ongley on November 21, 1890. We learn that he was born in England, emigrated to this country at an early age, grew up in Syracuse, and studied art in New York City with "Artist Whitridge." It is believed that this was the artist Thomas Worthington Whittredge (1820 - 1910). After his marriage in 1871, Ongley traveled and painted throughout the eastern United States. The article states that Ongley "was a particularly faithful and excellent landscape painter, and his productions usually found a ready sale." Ongley settled in Utica in 1882, a city within easy reach of the Adirondacks.
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The museum's artist files include notations for several paintings with Adirondack subjects, one of which, titled The Chase, closely resembles this painting in subject and execution. Hunters in a canoe chasing a deer across a mist-enshrouded lake is a distinctly Adirondack subject.
The Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY, and The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, NY, both have landscapes of William Ongley in their Collections.
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