Frederic E.Church
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.
ID: 26226 Aurora Borealis,Mt.Desert Island,from Bar Harbor,Maine mk48
1860
Brush and oil paint on paperboard
10 3/8x13 7/8in
Cooper-Hewitt,National Design Museum,Smithsonian Institution.
Gift of Louis P.Church
