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St. Andrews in 1844

Oil landscape of the village of Saint-André-d’Argenteuil in summer; colour. The foreground shows deciduous and evergreen trees and green fields. Behind these, the village with its houses and white church is surrounded by two rivers on the left and right. A hill covered in green and ochre farmland rises behind the village. Indistinct blue hills can be seen in the distant background. The sky is cloudy, blue and white.

View of the village of St. Andrews by the artist Solomon around 1844. This painting belonged to Jemima Beattie, owner of the Beattie Hotel in St. Andrews. Following a family move, the painting ended up in Chicago, then in New York State, before joining the Argenteuil Regional Museum’s collection in 1935. When Professor Maranzi restored it in 1970, he discovered the following inscription at the bottom of the painting: View of St. Andrews L C from Abbot’s Hill October 1844.