Bidspirit auction | After Daniel Ridgway Knight, Hailing

After Daniel Ridgway Knight, Hailing the Ferry, Oil on Canvas - This oil on canvas painting is an early 20th-century copy of the 1885 composition titled Hailing the Ferry by Daniel Ridgway Knight. The work depicts two women in traditional peasant attire standing on a riverbank, with one figure pointing toward a distant boat in a pastoral landscape. The painting is executed in a naturalist style with visible brushwork and localized impasto in the highlights. The work is unsigned. A handwritten note on the verso provides the following transcription: - After a Scene By / Daniel Ridgway Knight / original painted c. 1885 / copy - 1900 - 1920 / unsigned last owned / BY winifred Andrews of / Canandaigua, NY. sold by / Kiplings Treasures And / Antiquities 2-28-98. The painting is housed in a multi-tiered gilt wood frame with a green-toned gold finish. 18 1/2 inches height by 22 5/8 inches width.