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AEDAlfred Copestick “Headwaters of the Juniata” Oil on Canvas
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LiveJun 3, 2026
Pre-bidding is now open for our June Fine Art & Design auction, featuring fine art, sterling silver, wrist and pocket watches, sculptures, and designer bags. Highlights include an 18K Tiffany & Co Pocket Watch, 1987 Chinese Gold Panda Proof Sets, alongside paintings from Sydney Laurence, Alfred Copestick, Adrien Sacquespee, and Felix Ziem. SebastianCharles Auctions bid@sebastiancharles.com
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- Lot Description
Artist: Alfred Coupstick (1837-1859)
Signed and dated lower left "A. Copestick NY 1859"
Description per Appraisal: View of a waterfall, the headwaters of the Juniata River in the Alleghany Mountains.
Image: 15" x 12"
Frame: 21" x 18"
Condition: Crazing throughout; overall, in good condition. Wear and age to the frame.
Artist Bio: Alfred Copestick (c.1837–1859) was an American landscape and marine painter who emerged briefly but brilliantly in the New York and Philadelphia art worlds of the late 1850s before his death at age twenty-two in a hunting accident in Delmar Township, north-central Pennsylvania. Largely self-taught, Copestick painted with a dreamy, light-touched brushwork that critics of his day hailed as proof of genius and that today reads as a precursor to both Winslow Homer's marine paintings and the French Impressionist seascapes of the following decade. He exhibited four marine paintings at the National Academy of Design in New York, including The Abandoned Ship, Coast of Cuba, and his major early canvas New York from the Harbor Showing the Battery and Castle Garden entered the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Remarkably, he produced his evocative ocean scenes despite never having seen a shoreline beyond Coney Island, working almost entirely from observation of New York harbor and from imagination. His sudden death cut short what his contemporaries believed would have been a major American painting career.
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