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Frederic Edwin Church
American Hudson River School Painter, 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. This was an unusual honour
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Painting ID:: 10663
The Wreck
1852
Oil on canvas;
The Parthenon,
Nashville,
Tennessee;
30 x 46 in.
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Painting ID:: 10664
Grand Manan Island Bay of Fundy
1852;
Oil on canvas;
Wadsworth Atheneum
Hartford, Connecticut
21.18 x 31.56 in.
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Painting ID:: 10665
Natural Bridge Virginia
1852
Oil on canvas
University of
Virginia Art
Museum,
28 x 23 in
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Painting ID:: 10666
Mount Ktaadn
1853Oil on canvas
Yale University Art
Gallery,New Haven
Connecticut;
36.25 x 55.25 in.
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Painting ID:: 10668
Cotopaxi
Oil on canvas
19 x 14.5 in.
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Frederic Edwin Church
American Hudson River School Painter, 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. This was an unusual honour
. Related Artists to Frederic Edwin Church: | Gwen John | Charles Courtney Curran | James Sant | Alfred Thompson Bricher | Gian Emilio Malerba |
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