Palm tree art. My favorite kind, all of these by American painter Louis Rémy Mignot. Living from 1831 to 1870, he travelled with artist Frederic Edwin Church to Ecuador in 1857, gathering material for his paintings of the tropics.

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Marsh in Ecuador. 1858. American. Oil painting. Louis Rémy Mignot, painter (1831-1870). Private collection. Image source: http://the-athenaeum.org/art/display_image.php?id=32242 . In the public domain because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_R%C3%A9my_Mignot_Marsh_in_Ecuador.jpg
Lagoon of the Guayaquil, South America. ca. 1863. American. Oil on board. Louis Rémy Mignot, painter (1831-1870). Signed with initial M on the lower right. Image © Christies 2024. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-6465931?ldp_breadcrumb=back&intObjectID=6465931&from=salessummary&lid=1
River Scene, Ecuador. 1857. American. Oil on board. Louis Rémy Mignot, painter (1831-1870). Signed and dated Mignot.1857 on the lower right. Image © Christies 2024. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5561249
Karhuikazo. 1860. American. Louis Rémy Mignot, painter (1831-1870). In the public domain due to age. via https://www.amazon.com/Karhuikazo-Private-Collection-Unframed-Reproduction/dp/B089FPQHDH and https://19thcenturyusapaint.blogspot.com/2012/08/louis-remy-mignot.html

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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