Emile Albert Gruppe (1896 - 1978) was born in Rochester New York to Helen and Charles P. Gruppe. He lived in the Netherlands as a child, while his father Charles Paulo Gruppe, painted with the Hague school of art and acted as a dealer for Dutch painters in the US. The family returned permanently to the states around 1913 just before WWI. In the early 1930’s Emile moved to the fishing town of Gloucester, Massachusetts and to the area known as Rocky Neck, one of the oldest artist communities in the US.

This 24 x 20 inch painting of a harbor sold for $1009 on ebay with 13 bids in June 2009.