Antique Oil on Canvas LOST GREENHORN Western Painting After Alfred Jacob Miller

The original artist who first created this subject, Alfred Jacob Miller, is listed. The painting in this listing is not signed and thus, the 19th Century artist remains unknown. Miller original painting of the subject "Lost Greenhorn" is shown in the last picture in my photo gallery for this listing. The painting had some repair in the area of the sky and the gesso frame could use some repair.

All in all, this is a highly collectible painting and well known subject from the early 19th. Read excerpt below on some 19th/ century writing I found re Lost Greenhorn in the painting. On reaching the Buffalo District, one of our young men began to be ambitious, and although it was his first journey, boasted continually of what he would do in hunting Buffalo if permitted.

This was John (our cook), he was an Englishman and did no discredit to that illustrious nation in his stupid conceit and wrong-headed obstinacy. Our Captain, when any one boasted, put them to the test, so a day was given to John and he started off early alone. The day passed over, night came, - but so did not John.

Another day rolled over, the hunters returning at evening without having met him. The next morning men were dispatched in different quarters, and at about two o'clock, one of the parties brought in the wanderer - crest fallen and nearly starved;- he was met by a storm of ridicule and roasted on every side by the Trappers.

Thus carrying out that ugly maxim of Rochefoucault's. There is always something in the misfortune of our friends not disagreeable to us.

Miller, extracted from "The West of Alfred Jacob Miller" (1837). We will not honor these requests.

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