Francis William Edmonds
Interior Study

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Interior Study
Datec. 1835–1863
Made inUnited States
MediumOil on paper mounted on board
DimensionsSheet: 5 5/8 × 7 7/16 in. (14.3 × 18.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase funded by Arthur Seeligson III in honor of Walter Negley, Nancy B. Negley, and Alfred Negley at "One Great Night in November, 1998"
Object numberB.98.34
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Belter Parlor
On view

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Bayou Bend
Object Type
DescriptionFrancis William Edmonds began a career in banking in New York City before seriously pursuing artistic training in the late 1820s. He became involved with several artists’ associations there, and his connections to the financial world helped bring artists and patrons together. The subjects of most of Edmonds’s paintings derive from American life. The majority represent domestic interiors as the setting for dramas of everyday middle-class existence. His images generally display the optimistic good cheer that Americans of this period preferred, and many include humorous touches.
ProvenanceThe artist; by descent, his daughter Nora H. Edmonds; her daughter Cecil Coudert; her son, Paul Begelow; [Kennedy Galleries, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1998.
Exhibition History

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