Artist: Frederic Edwin Church Painting: Twilight among the Mountains Introduction: 1845Oil on canvas
Olana State
Historic Site,
Hudson,NewYork
16.25 x 23.5 in.
Artist: Frederic Edwin Church Painting: Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford in 1636 Introduction: Oil on canvas
Wadsworth Athaneum
Hartford, Connecticut
40.25 x 60.38 in
American Hudson River School Painter, 1826-1900 ..American painter. He was a leading representative of the second generation of the HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL, who made an important contribution to American landscape painting in the 1850s and 1860s. The son of a wealthy and prominent businessman, he studied briefly in Hartford with two local artists, Alexander Hamilton Emmons (1816-84) and Benjamin Hutchins Coe (1799-1883). Thanks to the influence of the Hartford patron DANIEL WADSWORTH, in 1844 he became the first pupil accepted by Thomas Cole. This was an unusual honour
. Related Artists to Frederic Edwin Church : | Werner van den Valckert | Maggiotto, Domenico | John Durand | Libri, Girolamo dai | DOMENICO VENEZIANO |