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Johann Mongles Culverhouse (Dutch 1825-1895) Oil on Panel, Interior with Family. A mother with nursing baby, a son and daughter.. Beautifully detailed with natural light from the window illuminating the scene. In ornate original period gilt wood and gesso frame. Oil 8 1/2x6. In Frame 12 3/4x15x2 1/4. Wt. 4 pds 13 oz. PROVENANCE A Private London UK / Charleston SC Collection. Born in Rotterdam on August 29,1820, Johan Mongels Culverhouse was one of six children of R. Culverhouse and C. Mongels. Culverhouse made a name for himself as a candlelight painter, specializing in nocturnal scenes illuminated by moonlight or candlelight in the tradition of seventeenth-century Dutch painting. In the same tradition he also painted genre subjects, including rowdy taverns, busy markets, children, families and bustling streets. Culverhouse lived and worked in Rotterdam until 1845 and The Hague in 1846. He exhibited at Groningen in 1845 and Rotterdam in 1846 before coming to the United States. The exact year of his arrival is not known. However, exhibition records and his work document Culverhouse's life in America. He exhibited at the American Academy of the Fine Arts in 1849, the Boston Athenaeum and the New Jersey Art-Union in 1851, and the National Academy of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1852. The American Art-Union in New York acquired and exhibited seven of his paintings in 1849 and distributed them to its subscribers. It sold six more at public auction in 1852 when it was disbanded as an illegal lottery. Culverhouse apparently returned to Europe in the late 1850s. He exhibited at the Paris Salons of 1857, 1859, 1861, 1863, and 1864, giving a Paris address. He exhibited in Antwerp in 1861 and in Amsterdam the following year.By the mid-1860s Culverhouse was back in America. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1865 and 1866, giving a New York address, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1867. By December 1871 he had settled in Syracuse, New York. Notes from a variety of sources in the collection of the Onondaga Historical Association provide a brief record of his stay there. The Syracuse Journal for December 12,1871, reported that he opened a studio in Judson N. Knapp's art gallery and frame store at 47 Genesee Street. The building is shown in Culverhouse's painting of Syracuse by moonlight, now titled Clinton Square - 1871 (Onondaga Historical Association, Syracuse). According to the city directory for 1872, Culverhouse was boarding at the St. Charles Hotel. Several of Culverhouse's paintings were shown in the fall exhibition of the Brooklyn Art Association in 1877 and one in the spring of the following year. Although he is said to have died about 1889, the date and place of his death are not known. Museums: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; The Hermitage Museum, Switzerland; The Smithsonian, Washington DC; Yale University Art Gllery, New Haven, CT and numerous others. REF: Smithsonian American Art Museum Renwick Gallery;