“After the Storm, Lake George” by Samuel Theobald, Jr (1872-1953)
Oil on Panel
9” x 5.5” Unframed
7.25” x 10.75” Framed
Signed lower left

Verso:
– S. Theobold Jr
After the Storm, Lake George, 26

Provenance:
Payne Fine Art

Stillwell House Fine Art & Antique

Bio:

Samuel Theobald, Jr. (1872-1953)

He was born in Baltimore Maryland, in 1872, the son of a famous eye surgeon. He lived most of his adult life in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village on Barrow Street. Early in his career he studied with Andre Jean Castaigne, the French painter and popular illustrator.

In winter Theobald would travel to Sarasota Florida, the Barnum & Bailey Circus headquarters, so he could paint backstage. Several of his subjects feature circus animals and performers. He also spent time on Fire Island, New York, where he paints seascapes and dock scenes. A portrait commission of Aubrey Clarke hangs in the collection of the Redwood Library, Newport, Rhode Island.

After the death of his wife, artist and sculptor, Elizabeth Sturtevant Theobald, he returned to Baltimore where he died in 1953.