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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:: 78844
Ellen s Isle
Oil on canvas, 28-1/2 x 49 in
Date ca. 1870(1870)
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Painting ID:: 79091
Land of the Lotos Eaters
Oil on canvas, 52-3/4 x 88-5/8 in
Date 1861(1861)
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Painting ID:: 79092
Little Miami River
Oil on canvas, 29-1/4 x 42-1/4 in
Date 1851(1851)
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Painting ID:: 79360
Recollections of Italy
Oil on canvas, 20.5 x 39 in
Date 1846(1846)
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Painting ID:: 79513
Ellens Isle
Oil on canvas, 28-1/2 x 49 in
Date ca. 1870(1870)
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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: | Philip James de Loutherbourg | Lyon, Corneille de | David Klocker Ehrenstrahl | Louis Krevel | Jean Cousin THe Elder |
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