Thomas H. Hinckley, Rabbit Hunting Oil Painting

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Jan 28, 2017 - Jan 29, 2017

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  Rabbit Hunting. Thomas Hewes Hinckley (1813-1896). Oil on canvas, 1868. Signed and dated lower right: "T.H. Hinckley / 1868". 35 3/4 x 48 inches. Provenance: Ferargil Galleries, New York, 1945; Edward Eberstadt & Sons, New York, 1958; Kennedy Galleries, New York; private collection, until 2007 Exhibited: Ferargil Galleries, New York, Nineteenth Annual Early American Paintings, October 1945, no. 14 (as Hunters). Literature: 1908-1958: Our Golden Anniversary Catalogue of American Paintings (New York: Edward Eberstadt & Sons, 1958), no. 87 (as Flushing Wild Game). Related works: The Rabbit Hunters, 1850, oil on canvas, 40 x 54 ¼ inches (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); Hunting Scene in Milton, Massachusetts, 1868, oil on canvas, 14 x 21 inches (Godel & Co.). Thomas Hewes Hinckley was born in Milton, Massachusetts, where he showed an early talent for drawing. While apprenticed to a merchant in Philadelphia, Hinckley attended evening drawing classes taught by William Mason. Hinckley first worked as a sign painter in 1833 before turning to portraiture and eventually to animal painting. He built a studio in Milton and in 1845 was commissioned by Daniel Webster to draw Webster’s famous Ayrshire cattle herd. The American Art-Union purchased many paintings that resulted from these sketches, and in 1846 the National Academy of Design also exhibited two cattle paintings. Under the sponsorship of William W. Swain, Hinckley sketched deer at Naushon Island, off the coast of Massachusetts, and later continued these studies in the Adirondacks. In 1851 he visited Europe, where he studied the works of Edwin Henry Landseer among other English and Flemish painters, and in 1858 he exhibited two paintings of dogs with game at the Royal Academy in London. Later, he spent time making studies of elk in California, but ultimately returned to Milton to continue his studies of animals and the Massachusetts landscape. In the late 1860s, Hinckley revisited the hunting subjects he had painted before his European tour with fresh eyes. In our Rabbit Hunting, he refined the composition of his 1851-52 submission to the American Art-Union, The Rabbit Hunters, 1850 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). In the 1850 painting, the rabbit chase was only one element in a composition that also included landscape vistas and a scene of a hunter playing with his dog, but in the 1868 painting, Hinckley minimized the other elements and unified the action around the crevice through which a rabbit has slipped. Having seen Landseer’s work in England, Hinckley also posed the animals with greater naturalism, and he enlivened the picture with a more colorful palette. Thomas Hewes Hinckley’s paintings and drawings were exhibited at the American Art-Union, National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Brooklyn Art Association, Boston Athenaeum, Boston Art Club, and the Royal Academy, London. His work can be found in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Milton Public Library, Massachusetts; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.; and the Shelburne Museum, Vermont.
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