Edward Seager Rhode Island (1809-1886) THREE WORKS: PREPAREDNESS, DISTANT GLIMPSE OF CASTLE, and CLUMP OF TREES ON A HILLSIDE pencil, framed, titled: upper margin, inscribed: lower margin, What a guy, paper size: H5 1/2" W4 1/2"; pen and ink, framed, inscribed in pencil: verso, sight size: H3 3/8" W8 1/2"; pencil, framed, unsigned, paper size: H10 1/2" W8 1/4" *Provenance: From the estate of the artist. *Artist biography: Edward Seager came to Canada from England about 1832. He traveled and sketched in Panama and Cuba in the 1830s, and he lived on Tremont Road in Boston in 1838. He made his first trip to the White Mountains in 1839 and made sketching trips to New Hampshire in 1861, 1863 and during the 1870s. Titles of his New Hampshire paintings include MOUNT WASHINGTON, NEW HAMPSHIRE; NOTCH OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS, NEW HAMPSHIRE; SANDWICH HILLS, SQUAM LAKE, NEW HAMPSHIRE and WATERFALL IN THE FRANCONIA NOTCH, NEW HAMPSHIRE. In 1844 he became the drawing master at the English High School in Boston where the sculptor John Rogers was one of his students. He became the first professor of drawing and drafting at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, from 1850 to 1867. He lived in Baltimore, Maryland in 1871. He exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum in 1847 and 1848.