The Wayside Inn — Large painting — "The Arrival of the Boston Stage Coach at the Red Horse Tavern, 1812" — A. Lassell Ripley

This painting is on display at the Wayide Inn.  Please contact me if you'd like me to join you at The Wayside Inn to view it. As shown in the photo, you'll find it on the long hallway to the main dining room. — Lee Wright | Founder

 The painting shows the "Red Horse Tavern," which is in operation today and is called Longfellow's Wayside Inn. It's located in Sudbury, Massachusetts. When it was built, the Boston Post Road ran right past it. (I've included a present day photo of the Inn with the product photos.)

Oil on canvas stretched over board and mounted in cleated wooden frame. 

Signed by the artist, A. Lassel Ripley, 1942 and titled in pencil inscriptions on the back.

One of four large murals of Historic Boston (or the Boston area) depicting scenes from 1760 to 1885.

Canvas size: 3' 8" x 3' 7¾"

Frame size: 3' 11½" x 3' 11¼"

Other paintings in the series:

• "A British Merchantman About to Depart from the Old Port of Boston, 1760"
• "Paul Revere Halts to Warn the Farmers on His Way to Lexington, 1775"
• "A Sunday Morning at the Corner of Park and Tremont Streets, 1885"

Shipping: To be arranged and billed at cost.

About the artist

"An outdoorsman as well as a painter, Aiden Lassell Ripley was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts in 1897. He trained briefly at the Fenway School of Illustration before joining the Army in 1917. On his return he studied at the Boston Museum School under Frank Benson and Philip Hale. An avid conservationist, he became well-known for his sporting and wildlife scenes. By painting and drawing en plein-air in the landscape and environment that he loved, his work has a freshness and spontaneity that surpasses most of his contemporaries. At six foot two inches tall with his cowboy hat and hunting coat, 'Old Rip' was a familiar sight around the woods of his native New England. 'You couldn't stop him from hunting, fishing and painting', recalled a Boston Museum School classmate. Amongst his best known commissions were a mural for the Winchester, Massachusetts Public Library and a mural at the Lexington Post Office. He died in 1961 and his work is represented in a number of important institutional collections, including the Boston Museum of Fine Art and the Chicago Art Institute."

Source: Christie's Auctions