Joseph R. Mason Sold at Auction Prices

ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH ROBERT MASON, Delaware/Ohio, 1808-1842, Portrait of a minister., Oil on canvas, 33" x 27". Framed 42" x 36".

ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH ROBERT MASON Delaware/Ohio, 1808-1842 Portrait of a minister. This painting is lined in an original frame and is of significant size because of the frame. When Joseph Robert Mason was in his very early teens, he took a class with John James Audubon. Audubon was so impressed with Mason's ability to draw, he took the boy with him down the Mississippi for what was close to a three-year trip. Mason is credited with having done all the background and floral details in Audubon's watercolors of that period. Mason was 16 when his father, a bookseller, died and he returned to Cincinnati, where he opened a studio. But he had a falling out with Audubon, who took Mason's name off the watercolors. Oil on canvas, 33" x 27". Framed 42" x 36".