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Robert S.Duncanson
American artist .
1821-1872
A self-taught mulatto artist and a landscape painter of the Hudson River school tradition, Duncanson was the first Afro-American artist to receive international recognition. Born into a family of painters and handymen, Duncanson first worked as a house-painter and glazier in Monroe, MI. By 1841 he was in Cincinnati, OH, where he learnt to paint by executing portraits and copying prints. Throughout the 1840s he travelled as an itinerant artist between Cincinnati, Monroe and Detroit.
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Painting ID:: 31907
The Land of the Lotus Eaters
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1861
Oil on canvas
52 3/4x88 1/2in
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Painting ID:: 38331
Landscape with Rainbow
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Oil on canvas
1859
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Painting ID:: 77779
Dream of Arcadia
oil on canvas painting by Robert S. Duncanson after Thomas Cole, circa 1852
Date c. 1852
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Painting ID:: 78559
View of Cincinnati
Oil on canvas, 25 x 36 in
Date ca. 1851(1851)
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Painting ID:: 78705
Recollections of Italy
1846(1846)
Source scan of painting
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Robert S.Duncanson
American artist .
1821-1872
A self-taught mulatto artist and a landscape painter of the Hudson River school tradition, Duncanson was the first Afro-American artist to receive international recognition. Born into a family of painters and handymen, Duncanson first worked as a house-painter and glazier in Monroe, MI. By 1841 he was in Cincinnati, OH, where he learnt to paint by executing portraits and copying prints. Throughout the 1840s he travelled as an itinerant artist between Cincinnati, Monroe and Detroit.
. Related Artists to Robert S.Duncanson: | Georg Anton Rasmussen | Parris, Edmund Thomas | Ligeti, Antal | William Peters | Frederick Stuart Church |
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