# Landscape near Newport, R. I.

- By: Edward Mitchell Bannister (born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828-died Providence, RI 1901)
- Date: ca. 1877-1878
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 12 1/8 x 26 in. (30.9 x 65.9 cm.)
- Culture: Newport
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Ronald E. Deal
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=954)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/fa460efd87b9b65671fdebc4216e5271.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

In 1870, Edward Bannister and his wife moved from Boston to Providence, Rhode Island. The state capital had a rapidly growing immigrant population at that time, and African Americans struggled for job opportunities. Despite these difficult circumstances, Bannister established himself by tapping into the market for pastoral landscape scenes, fashionable among wealthy Providence patrons. Dealer Seth M. Vose popularized these works by importing Barbizon paintings from France to Rhode Island. (Hartigan, Sharing Traditions, 1985)