Charles Webster Hawthorne was an American born artist who was a genre painter and eventually founded the Cape Cod School of Art. As a youth, Hawthrone spent time abroad in both the Netherlands and Italy which heavily influenced his later works. This landscape portrait features Louis Comfort Tiffany's Estate Laurelton Hall. Laurelton Hall, located on the northern coast of Long Island, was one of the hundreds of mansions that dotted the coast line when Long Island served as a popular vacation spot for the wealthy.