"Farmyard Scene," Oil on canvas painting by Alfred Cornelius Howland, signed in the lower left. Exterior scene with figures standing in the landscape with chickens and swans. Provenance: acquired at Doyle Gallery NYC. Alfred Cornelius Howland, a tonalist painter of light-filled, cheerful story-telling landscapes and genre scenes, was born in 1838 in Walpole, New Hampshire. In 1855, he graduated from Walpole Academy and then went to Boston, where he found employment as an engraver and studied drawing and lithography with Max Eppendorff and Paul Schulze. Overall size: 20 x 24 1/4 in.Sight size: 13 1/4 x 17 1/4 in.Please note that all sales are final. No refunds will be given under any circumstances.