Paintings

Morston Constatine Ream
American 1840-1898
Still Life with Peaches
Oil on canvas
16 by 20 in.  w/frame 22 12/ by 26 ½ in.
Signed lower middle

Provenance:

Private Collection CT.
Le Trianon Fine Art & Antiques

Inventory Number: Art R2
1800-1899 American Period 1800-1899 Still Life 19th Century

See Artist Bio below.


Morston Constatine Ream
American 1840-1898

Morston Constatine Ream was a specialist in fruits and dessert still lifes.  He had a brother Carducius Platagenet Ream who also was an artist.  Morston learned daguerreotyping in 1860 and was a photographer’s apprentice until he found the process detrimental to his health and turned to painting in1868.

Exhibited:
Moore’s Art Room, NY; Cleveland, OH; Brooklyn AA, 1873-83; PAFA Ann.,
1876, 1881; Toledo Loan Exh., 1885; San Francisco; NAD, 1872-83; AIC, 1888-97.

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