Item# AT-0332-"North Africa" Oil Painting by Newbold Hough Trotter (1827

Item #AT-0332
"North Africa" Oil Painting by Newbold Hough Trotter (1827 - 1898)

Description:
"North Africa"
Oil Painting by Newbold Hough Trotter (1827 - 1898)

American

Measures:
Unframed
27.5"H x 39"W
Framed

32.5"H x 46.5"W

Newbold H. Trotter was born in Philadelphia, in 1827. After attending Haverford College from 1841 to 1845, he worked for the wholesale dry goods firm of Wood, Abbott, and Company. Later, he became a partner in the machinist company Birkinbine, Martin, and Trotter.

Trotter began to pursue his interest in art while still involved in business. He may have attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1854. In 1858, he exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy for the first time and later became a member there. He was also a member of the Art Club of Philadelphia, Artists' Fund Society of Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Society of Artists.

During his life he also exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York City, and the Boston Athenaeum.

Trotter painted mainly landscapes and animal subjects. General William Tecumseh Sherman purchased his painting, Wounded Buffaloes Pursued by Prairie Wolves for Army Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Due to his interest in natural history, Trotter received a commission to illustrate Hayden's Journal of the Mammals of North America. He completed thirty paintings for the book before the project was canceled due to lack of funding. He later in life went to North Africa.
The artist died in 1898
Newman Gallery