Post Road Gallery
Fine American Paintings

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Little is known of the very talented expatriot painter Herbert Denman. He was born in Brooklyn and studied art in Paris. He exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1889 and at the World's Columbian Exhition in 1892. His most famous work, The Trio, was given to the Brooklyn Museum at the time of the Artist's death by Emile Carlsen.

This painting illustrates a Catholic Festival that takes place each year in June in Brittany to paying homage to St. Anne and the sea. In thhe same year Denman exhibted at the Expostition Universelle, "The Arrival of the Procession of St. Anne from Fouesnant to Concarneau" by Alfred Guillou. a grand and academic treating of the subject, was exhibited and purchased by the French government for the Musee de Luxemborg. Guillou's painting, now in the collection of the Musee d' Orsay, was no doubt the inspiration for Denman.