This lovely painting entitled A Sojourn by the Seaside by Edward D. Boit (American, 1840-1915) comes from the collection at Chateau-sur-Mer. The oil-on-canvas landscape depicts a woman and child relaxing beneath an umbrella on a brush-covered cliff along the coast of Dinard in northern France. Sailboats ply the sea and an approaching steamship appears in the distance. Boit initially trained as a lawyer at Harvard but turned to painting as a career instead. He befriended John Singer Sargent, who in 1882 immortalized the children of Boit and his wife, Mary Louisa Cushing Boit, in the masterpiece The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Gift of the Boit family) #NewportMansionsFromHome #MuseumsFromHome #AloneTogether #NewportMansionsStrong #ThePreservationSocietyofNewportCounty #RhodeIsland