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CHARLES HENRY FROMUTH (American, 1861-1937) On the Sea Coast, Brittany, April, 1892 Oil on canvas 18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61.0 cm) Signed lower right: Chas H. Fromuth 1892. Title inscribed in ink on old paper label verso: "On the sea coast, Brittany, April" THE JEAN AND GRAHAM DEVOE WILLIFORD CHARITABLE TRUST Charles Henry Fromuth enjoyed a successful international career painting marines, and harbor scenes cluttered with many sails and boats. Born in Philadelphia, he trained with Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy and then continued his artistic education in Paris, as Eakins himself had done. In Paris he was a student of Robert-Fleury and Bouguereau, and painted regularly on the Breton and Normandy coasts, both as a student and also as a mature painter. Five years after he painted this luminous view of the white sand and beach grasses near the sea in Brittany, he won a gold medal in the Munich International Exposition (1897). He died in Concarneau.