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signed "Joseph De Camp," l.r.- -oil on canvas 25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm.) PROVENANCE Dwight Blaney, Boston By descent through the family to the present owner EXHIBITED Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "The Bostonians: Painters of an Elegant Age, 1870-1930," June-Sept. 1986, p. 123, no. 32, illus. as "Seascape" (this exhibition traveled to Denver, The Denver Art Museum, Oct. 1986-Jan. 1987; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, March-May 1987) RELATED LITERATURE U. W. Hiesinger, "Impressionism in America: The Ten American Painters," Munich, 1991, pp. 236-237 Joseph De Camp, a native of Cincinnati, first studied at the McMicken School of Design and later with Frank Duveneck in Munich and James Whistler in Venice. He settled in Boston in 1884 where he became an influential teacher at Wellesley and at various art schools in the area. He was founding member of The Ten American Painters in 1897 and exhibited widely in the East and in Chicago. Although best known for his portraits and figurative works of ladies in interiors, his brighter palette landscapes such as "Trees Along the Coast" are equally revered and considerably rarer. In the early 1890s, De Camp was named along with Robert Vonnoh as one of the advanced outdoor painters. ("New York Daily Tribune," April 22, 1893, section III, p. 4) Like this seascape, masterworks such as "The Hammock" and "The Pear Orchard" from 1895 were painted in his bold impressionistic style, and are among the very few outdoor scenes which are extant from the several hundred works destroyed in the artist's studio fire of 1904. "Trees Along the Coast" was most likely acquired directly from the artist by fellow painter Dwight Blaney and was probably painted "circa" 1895 during one of De Camp's summers in Maine. The Property of ELIZABETH BLANEY CRAM.