For years and years on Main Street Mom had a picture that hung on the living room wall of cows standing in a pond. It was kinda ugly, Mom said Opal had given it to her. Some of the furniture Opal had given Mom and Dad belonged to Grandma Brittingham's Mother and Grandmother. Grandma Brittingham was born in the late 1800's
I saw a picture similar to that picture on Antique Roadshow today by an Artist Peter Moran, it bore a striking resemblance to that ugly cow picture that hang on the wall on Main Street for so long. So if ( the cow picture could have been a real artist painting by Peter Moran it would have been very old, from England and very valuable)??
I do not know what happened to that picture probably ended up in the trash. This picture on the road show was valued at $25,000. YIKES! Does anyone else remember that cow picture?
PETER MORAN 1841 – 1914 came from a family artists. His brothers Edward and Thomas were painters and etchers, and a sister-in-law, Mary Nimmo Moran, was an etcher. Peter was born in England and came to the United States at the age of three. He trained in a lithographic shop, but did not like it. He decided to become an artist, and admired animal painters like the famous Edwin Landseer. Later he became very interested in scenes of the wild west as it was being settled. He learned etching, and became one of the best in the country. He was president of the Philadelphia Society of Etchers.
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