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The 16 square puzzle using a portion of a fine painting by American artist Levi Wells Prentice. When the puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 25 square puzzle with the same image. You can go there directly by clicking the red square.

The 25 square puzzle using a portion of a fine painting by American artist Levi Wells Prentice. When the puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 36 square puzzle with the same image. You can go there directly by clicking the red square.

The 36 square puzzle using a portion of a fine painting by American artist Levi Wells Prentice. It is getting to be very difficult to complete! When the puzzle is complete, you will jump to a 49 square puzzle with the same image. You can go there directly by clicking the red square.

The 49 square puzzle using a portion of a fine painting by American artist Levi Wells Prentice. This puzzle is VERY hard. Congratulations if you succeed. The applet permits up to a ten square puzzle. If there is any interest in my listing a puzzle of greater difficulty, drop me a line and I'll add it in. You can read about the artist below.

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The image is the major portion of a fine painting by American artist Levi Wells Prentice (1851-1935) entitled "Apples in a Tin Pail". You may see the original image as I saw it on Carol Gerten's (CGFA) site here (Japan) or here (U.S.A.).

I was not able to find a lot of information about the artist. However Levi Wells Prentice was born in 1851 at Harrisburgh, New York, just outside today's Adirondack Park. His family moved to Syracuse, New York, in the early 1870s and he opened a studio there in 1875. In this period, he focused on painting the Adirondack mountain area, producing close to 100 landscapes. In 1882 he married and soon moved to Buffalo but at the end of that decade he moved to Brooklyn NY, where he began to specialise in still life paintings, principally of fruit. His work is detailed and meticulous, almost photographic. The image on this page is one such still life, perhaps his most famous painting, an oil on canvas painted in 1892. The original painting, 16 1/4" x 13 1/4" in size, is in the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston. In the later years of his life, he lived in Connecticut and New Jersey, and finally in Philadelphia, PA where he died in 1935. His work is much in demand today. A Prentice painting Straw Hat with Apples was sold at auction in December 1998 for US $134,500.