William Weaver Armstrong Antique Oil Painting William Weaver Armstrong Mount Hood Oregon Landscape 1885, Circa 1885

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A large oil on Canvas painting by the California artist William Weaver Armstrong (1862-1906), Mount Hood Oregon landscape, circa 1885. … more A large oil on Canvas painting by the California artist William Weaver Armstrong (1862-1906), Mount Hood Oregon landscape, circa 1885.
This large landscape depicts the majestic Mount Hood and the wooded landscape below with the White River to the foreground, the painting is signed lower left. Condition is good, the painting is clean, no in-painting, a couple of old patches to the back of the canvas, housed in a gilded gesso frame. A large and fine antique oil on canvas Oregon Landscape.

William Weaver Armstrong was first listed in the Oakland City Directory in 1884 as a farmer at 509 East Fourteenth Street; by 1887 he was listed as an artist at 1351 Telegraph Avenue; in 1903 as a partner of B. F. Jenkins at 364 7th Street; in 1906 as a carriage painter.
Whilst there are no records of Weaver having formal training he was schooled by his father who was an artist, during his short life span he became a competent and prolific painter of California scenery as well as scenes of the Pacific Northwest. Exposure to bad weather led to his death of tuberculosis in Oakland on Nov. 26, 1906.
Exh: Mechanics' Inst. (SF), 1885, 1888. In: Nevada Museum (Reno); Governors Mansion (Carson City, NV); Oakland Museum. Invw; Magazine of the Calif. Historical Society, Winter 1985; DR.
Source -Eden Hughes-

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Framed: 37" tall x 57" wide x 4" deep
At sight: 30" tall x 50" wide less