Artist: Frederic Edwin Church Painting: The Charter Oak Introduction: mk48
1847
Oil on canvas
22 1/8x30 1/8in
Olana State Historic Site,New York State Office of Parks,Recreation and Historic Preservation
Artist: Frederic Edwin Church Painting: West Rock,new Haven Introduction: mk48
1849
Oil on canvas
26 1/8x40 1/8in
New Britain Museum of American Art,John Butler Talcott Fund
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 : | Benjamin West Clinedinst | Charles Cottet | John Neagle | Alexander Coosemans | GUARIENTO d Arpo |