Description

This is an original oil painted of the Northern California coast by artist Julian Rix.  It is 20 x 30 framed as shown from a private consignment.  Previous appraisal done in 2006 valued the painting at $15,000(insured value).  The painting was restored in 2006-see attached documents.

Julian Rix (1850–1903) was an American landscape artist.

A native of Vermont, he lived in California where his artwork caught the attention of silk tycoon, William Ryle, of Paterson, New Jersey. Ryle financed Rix’s work and many of his portraits hang in the halls of Lambert Castle in Paterson, New Jersey. Rix died at his home in New York City in 1903.

Julian Walbridge Rix was one of the first California painters to be influenced by the Barbizon style.  He too sketched outside and painted his works inside his studio but his strong colors and his muscular use of his palette knife were uniquely his own.  His abilities and works were the envy of San Francisco painters.  Yet, when the art market collapsed in San Francisco, he moved first to Paterson, New Jersey, and then to New York City where he continued to so improve and grow as a Tonalist painter that he was placed, by the New York Times, in the company of George Inness and Homer Martin, as the future of landscape painting in America.