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Dr. Edward Ruggles 
American, 1817-1867 
White Mountains, New Hampshire 
Inscribed Ruggles and Mr. T. J. Shepard… on the reverse 
Oil on board 
5 1/2 x 7 3/8 inches 

“An eccentric physician and painter in Brooklyn,” Edward Ruggles abandoned his medical career to devote himself to painting. His small oil paintings were known as Ruggles Gems and were avidly sought by the end of his life. An honorary member of the National Academy of Design, he exhibited both there and at the American Art Union, and nine of his New Hampshire views were published by the Prang lithographic firm. After his death, a notice published in The New York Times on December 15, 1867, advertised a final, posthumous, sale of Ruggles Gems at the Leeds Art Galleries. The unidentified author waxed fulsome, commenting that “As a colorist, as an illustrator of nature, as an artistic scholar and critic, the merits of Dr. Ruggles are as highly appreciated by the best judges as they have latterly been by the general public; and the eagerness to obtain his pictures almost taxed to the last point his extraordinary 

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