Anna Eliza Hardy
Peonies
Original Frame
Oil on Canvas
17" x 22"
Estimate: $18000/22000

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This exquisite example - the best we've ever seen by far - finally and forever establishes 
this very rare artist from Maine in the front ranks of American still life painters. The daughter 
of the long-recognized portrait artist Jeremiah Hardy from Bangor, Maine, Anna Eliza suffered 
the standard disinterest in the artistic achievements of women practiced throughout much of 
the 19th and 20th Centuries. With the arrival on the scene of this extraordinary canvas, 
that practice becomes more meaningless than ever.