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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:: 26208
Mount Chimborazo,Ecuador
mk48
1857
Brush and oil paint,graphite on paperboard
13 9/16x20 9/16in
Cooper-Hewitt,National Design Museum,Smithsonian Institution,Gift of Louis P.Church
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Painting ID:: 26209
Heart of the Andes
mk48
1859
Oil on canvas
66 1/8x119 1/4in
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,Bequest of Margaret E.Dows
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Painting ID:: 26210
Study for The Heart of the Andes
mk48
1858
Oil on canvas
10 1/4x18 1/4in
Olana State Historic Site,New York State Office of Parks,Recreation and Historic Preservation,
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Painting ID:: 26211
Icebergs at Midnight,Labrador
mk48
july 1859
Brush and oil paint on paperboard
12x19 15/16in
Cooper-Hewitt,National Design Museum Smithsonian Institution.Gift of Louis P.Church
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Painting ID:: 26212
Iceberg Fantasy
mk48
c.1859
Brush and oil paint on tan wove pape,lined
5 1/2x 67/8in
Cooper-Hewitt,National Design Museum,Smithsonian Institution,Gift of Louis P.Church
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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: | Nathulal Gordhan | Alexis Simon Belle | Anna Munthe-Norstedt | George Price Boyce.RWS | John Kensett |
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