Ransome Gillet Holdredge (1836 - 1899) was an early San Francisco school painter, specializing in Northern California landscapes.Holdredge was born in 1836,[1] and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1850s, where he became head draughtsman at Mare Island Naval Yard.He helped organize the San Francisco Art Association and was friends with Charles Warren Stoddard and Robert Louis Stevenson.[12] Prior to his studies in Europe, Holdredge painted in the Hudson River School style of realism, and signed his works with the surname spelled Holdridge.In Europe, he developed a romantic style evocative of the Barbizon School, and began spelling his surname as Holdredge.