JOSEPH MEEKER 1827-1887

American
Size:  18x24.
Medium: oil on canvas
Signature: on back. 
 
Joseph Rusling Meeker was born in New Jersey in 1827.  He studied with Asher Durand, a Hudson River School painter, and a portraitist Charles Loring Elliot.   He fulfilled his military service during the Civil War.  He was a Union Paymaster traveling on a gunboat Mississippi River. 
 
Meeker also sketched the bayous and swamps of Louisiana, while serving his country.  Meeker moved to St Louis, Missouri, and became a successful artist.  He also painted in New England, New Hampshire, Wyoming, and Minnesota.
This painting by Joseph Meeker is an oil on canvas, measuring 18 x24, and signed on the verso.