"Miss Lucia". Watercolor on paper, signed lower right, matted and framed under glass, 14" x 21" image size, with matting and frame 26" x 32". This is one of twelve paintings of different setters commissioned by Harry Ransom Edwards. The dog was named for Lucia (Mrs. Charles A. Otis) nee Edwards. Harry Edwards owned a farm in Chardon, Ohio with breeding stock of setters. Whenever one of his housebred dogs was made a Field Triple Champion he had it painted by Osthaus (a personal friend). (Paraphrased from a letter written about the painting in 1984 by Mrs. Dan Hanna.) Other information about the descent of the piece is written on the back of the framing.
Born in Hildesheim, Germany, Osthaus studied at the Royal Academy in Dusseldorf under the tutelage of Andreas Muller, Peter Jansen, E.V. Gebhardt, E. Deger and Christian Kroner. He came to the United States in 1883 where he became the principal of the Toledo Academy of Fine Arts in Toledo, Ohio. After the school closed, Osthaus devoted his entire time to painting. Hunting and fishing were his passion and the subject of most of his paintings. He quickly became known for his specialty, hunting dogs. Osthaus died at the age of seventy at his hunting lodge near Marianna, Florida. His works are held by the Toledo Museum of Art and are collected by hunting and fishing aficionados all over the world.
8,000/12,000 Sold $8,337.50
back to catalog
