One of the still-life specialist of the Fall River School (Connecticut), Abbie L. Zuill was the most faithful to her teacher Robert Spear Dunning. After Dunning's death, she was called in to complete many of his works that were not finished. Being a later pupil in the school , her work naturally reflects lighter forms and a soft, luminous light. The fruit in her pictures tend not to be as sharply defined, and the actual painting is somewhat course, but her work is, very close to that of Dunning's.

Listed:
Art Across America, Two Centuries of Regional Painting, Vol. I, William Gertz
American Still-Life Painting, William Gertz, Russel Burke

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton