Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1882 at lower left, presented in a later frame with brass gallery plaque.

Stretcher size 35 1/2 x 48 in.; Frame dimensions 43 1/2 x 56 in.

Property of Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sold to support art collections care

Charles T. Webber was born in Cayuga Lake, New York. Primarily self-taught, he moved to Ohio in 1855. He was active in the Cincinnati art scene, operating a photographic and picture studio as well as painting portraits, landscapes and historical works.

Webber's most famous painting is "The Underground Railroad," exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and now in the collection of the Cincinnati Art Museum. This monumental painting depicts the notable abolitionist Levi Coffin, along with Catherine Coffin and Hannah Haydock, leading a group of formerly enslaved people to freedom.

Allover craquelure; stretcher marks; (8) patches en verso with associated retouch to recto; reinforced tacking edges.

$1,000 - 3,000