Joseph Rusling Meeker (American/New Jersey, 1827-1887; Active New Orleans) "Near Lake Pontchartrain", 1875, oil on canvas, 14" x 18", signed and dated lower left "JR Meeker 1875", titled, monogrammed

meeker 1875 assured louisiana american/new left appears joined numerous permanent rusling canvas 1862 journeys dated private sketches swamps depictions important landscape signed collector york pontchartrain lower titled monogrammed verso union design noted river 1842 hudson school mississippi jersey 1827-1887 active orleans near lake retains gallery inventory label hicklin inc./southern decorative fine arts/509 east saint john period deep triple-molding carved giltwood plaster frame outer molding modeled ribbon-bound spartanburg south carolina prodigy recorded exhibiting american training studying years later national academy portraitist charles loring great painter asher brown durand 1796-1886 greatly influenced united states navy traveled place painters robert street/spartanburg good laurel superb elliott study meeker's gunboat worked bayous realistic nineteenth joseph 29302 presented leaves provenance young received 1812-1868 followed style paymaster vessel marshes lush century