WHITLEY, Thomas W. (fl. 1835 - 1865). View of New York City from Hoboken, New Jersey.

WHITLEY, Thomas W. (fl. 1835 - 1865)View of New York City from Hoboken, New JerseyOil on paper laid on panel Signed and dated lower left: "WHITLEY 65"13 1/2" x 26 1/4" sheet, 32 1/2" x 36" framed This evocative nineteenth-century landscape painting of Manhattan from Hoboken, New Jersey was painted by Thomas W. Whitley, who emigrated from his native England to the United States in the early 1830s. Initially settling in Patterson, New Jersey, he later relocated to New York City where the explosive growth and bustling commerce inspired some of his most notable works. In this painting, the artist rendered the southern tip of the prospering city in the composition’s background (beyond the calm waters of the Hudson River and the channel), with Manhattan’s steeples visibly rising into the dusky, pink and blue sky. Whitley rapidly attracted attention for his nuanced and lovely work after he arrived in the United States, exhibiting at the National Academy of Design from 1835 to 1863, and at th