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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.
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Painting ID:: 26187 Mt.Ktaadn
mk48
1853
Oil on canvas
36 1/4x55 1/4in
Yale University Art Gallery
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Painting ID:: 26188 Baron Alexander von Humboldt
mk48
1769-1859
Oil on canvas
62 1/2x54 3/8in
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,Gift of H.O.Havemeyer,
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Painting ID:: 26189 The Falls of Tequendama,Near Bogota,New Granada
mk48
1852
Oil on canvas
64x40in
Cincinati Art museum,The Edwin and Virginia Irwin Memorial
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Painting ID:: 26190 South American Landscape
mk48
1854
Brush and oil paint,graphite on thin paperboard
11 1/16x16 15/16in
Cooper-Hewitt,National Design Museum,Smithsonian Institution,Gift of Louis P.Church
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Painting ID:: 26191 Sunset,Bar Harbor
mk48
Oil on paper
10 1/8x17 1/4in
Olana State Historic Site,New York State
Office of Parks,Recreation and Historic Preservation
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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.
. Related Artists to Frederic E.Church: | Richard Coubould | Benjamin Champney | Artur Timoteo da Costa | Wood John Louis | Deak-Ebner, Lajos |
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