"The Sailboat". Oil on masonite, with an illegible signature at the lower right, framed in a wood frame, the board size measuring approx. 12" x 16", and with the frame overall approx. 16" x 20".
Henry Bayley Snell was a well-known American impressionist painter from New Hope, Pennsylvania. Snell is associated principally with the New Hope Impressionist School. He painted on many trips to Europe and India, and is especially noted for his coastal scenes of Cornwall, England. He also painted harbor scenes of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where he co-founded a second art school/colony in 1921 along with Frank Leonard Allen called Boothbay Studios. He also taught in New York City, Washington, D.C., and at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women.
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