The famous "Lynn Beach Painters" painted ocean scenes from Revere to Marblehead. In 1882, C.E.L. Green made it inland to paint the Fay Estate. From studying this image of an oil on canvas it appears the barn could of been on the Salem side, by the way of the sunrise, tree line (pertaining to history) behind the barn, and geometry of the stone walls. Have we another hunt in the wilderness to find the old slabs. We may have an idea of which direction the famous sheep of Richard Sullivan Fay were raised, from another view of an older painting of the old Twin Springs Hotel (later Fay Mansion), showing animals grazing towards Salem. It's encouraging to see a tree line behind the barn... this ties into the trees pertaining to history we've been finding. Isn't it more fun when history becomes a scavenger hunt?
Source:
Newspaper article from Daily Item, August 5, 1916
Image of painting from book "The Lynn Beach Painters: Art Along the North Shore 1880-1920"
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