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Title: De luxe illustrated catalogue of the modern paintings forming the private collection of the late John H. Converse of Philadelphia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association
Subjects: Converse, John H. (John Heman), 1840-1910
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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to long, sliding curlsof gleaming water. Signed and dated at the lower right, William T. Richards, 1886. 0 V No. 45JOHANN SIMON HENDRIK KEVER DUTCH (1857- ) THE SEWING CLASS Height, 30/^ inches; length, 42^ inches. A sewing teacher is conducting her class in the open air, the whole partybeing seated in front of a dull, red-brick cottage with buff-drab thatch.The woman, dressed in a salmon-pink waist and bluish-drab skirt, is on theleft of the group, with her back turned partly toward us, as she bends overher needlework. At her left is the solitary figure of a little girl, busilyknitting a black stocking. In front of the teacher sit five children in a row,the two end ones stitching, the others knitting. Each one, with her distinctcharacter of expression, is diligently absorbed in her work, the dresses of thewhole rank forming a pretty bouquet of colors—pink, olive-brown, gray andpale blue. Behind them appears a hedge, with apple trees showing beyond. Signed at the lower right, Kever.
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Vc No. 46FERDINAND HEILBUTH GERMAN (NATURALIZED FRENCH)(about 1834- ) BOATING PARTY ON THE THAMES Height, 27 %& inches ; Length, 3±% inches. Pleasure boats are moored along the left bank of the river, under theshadow of trees, which also shelter a boathouse. In front of the latter, alanding stage projects into the water. Two ladies are standing on it, onewith her back to us, dressed in a white gown and orange-3Tellow sash.Behind them a punt lies alongside the landing, held in place by a watermanin a red shirt. Two ladies are seated in the stern, near a man in a drabcoat with a creel slung from his shoulders, while another man with Dun-dreary whiskers is standing. Meanwhile, in front of the landing stage lietwo skiffs, side by side, one of them keeling over, as the gentleman in itleans across to whisper to the lady who occupies the other. The fartherbank of the river is bordered with trees, some of which are yellow in thesunshine. Signed at the lower left, F. Heilbuth. No. 47JOSEF

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