" The Banjo Lesson " Oil Painting

Oil Painting on Canvas Hand painted oil reproduction of Tanners most famous and recognized painting The Banjo Lesson. The original painting was created in 1893. Today the painting has been carefully recreated detail-by-detail, color-by-color to near perfection. Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859 - 1937) was an African-American artist. He was the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. He moved to Paris in 1891 to study, and decided to stay there, being readily accepted in French artistic circles. His painting entitled Daniel in the Lions Den was accepted into the 1896 Salon.