The Andes of Ecuador mk48
1855
Oil on canvas
48x75in
Reynolda House,Museum of American Art,Winston-Salem,North Carolina
new2/Frederic E.Church-365634.jpgPainting ID:: 26195
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
The Andes of Ecuador Medium oil on canvas
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