Edward Mitchell Bannister

1828–1901 · Realism

Edward Mitchell Bannister was a Canadian–American oil painter of the American Barbizon School. Born in colonial New Brunswick, he spent his adult life in New England in the United States. There, along with his wife Christiana Carteaux, he was a prominent member of African-American cultural and political communities, such as the Boston abolition movement. Bannister received national recognition after he won a first prize in painting at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. He was also a founding member of the Providence Art Club and the Rhode Island School of Design.

40 paintings

• Apple Trees in a Meadow (1890)
• River Scene (1883)
• Leucothea Rescuing Ulysses (1891)
• Governor Sprague's White Horse (1869)
• Fort Dumpling, Jamestown, Rhode Island
• Farmer Green's Meadow (1886)
• Figure on a Pier at Edge of Lake (1893)
• Scene along the Connecticut River, Westmoreland (1870)
• Docks on the Lake
• Untitled (1888)
• The Mill in Knightsville (1896)
• Untitled (Landscape with Bridge)
• Untitled (Trees and Shrubbery) (1877)
• Untitled (Rhode Island Landscape) (1898)
• Untitled (Bass Rock)
• Boston Street Scene (Boston Common) (1898)
• Child with Birds and Dog (1882)
• The Drinking Pool (three women at water) (1894)
• Landscape (1895)
• Landscape (trees) (1864)
• Newspaper Boy (1869)
• Repose (1864)
• The Salute (1895)
• St. Luke (1871)
• Still Life (1864)
• Train (1877)
• Untitled (1884)
• Untitled (boy and man with oxen) (1891)
• Untitled (cows on path in forest) (1883)
• Untitled (Four Cows Wading in Pond) (1864)
• Untitled (landscape with cattle grazing) (1897)
• Untitled (landscape with cows in stream near trees) (1882)
• Untitled (landscape with meadow and trees) (1864)
• Untitled (man on horseback, woman on foot driving cattle) (1880)
• Landscape (1897)
• Streamside (1870)
• The Farm Landing (1892)
• Summer Twilight (1899)
• Woman Standing near a Pond (1880)
• Palmer River (1885)