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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:: 79615
Kentucky
Oil on canvas, 25 x 36 in
Date ca. 1851(1851)
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Painting ID:: 79764
Land of the Lotos Eaters
Oil on canvas, 52-3/4 x 88-5/8 in
Date 1861(1861)
Source scan of painting
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Painting ID:: 79768
Little Miami River
Oil on canvas, 29-1/4 x 42-1/4 in
Date 1851(1851)
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Painting ID:: 82375
Portrait of Freeman Cary
1856
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 110.2 x 89.5 cm (43.4 x 35.2 in)
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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: | James Seymour | Ranney William Tylee | Jacob de Backer | naigeon | Anders Holm |
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