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
Frederic Edwin Church Moses Viewing Promised Land 1846Oil on
academy board
10 x 12.5 in.
Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford in 1636 Oil on canvas
Wadsworth Athaneum
Hartford, Connecticut
40.25 x 60.38 in Painting ID:: 10641
Frederic Edwin Church Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford in 1636 Oil on canvas
Wadsworth Athaneum
Hartford, Connecticut
40.25 x 60.38 in
North Lake 1847
Oil on canvas
12 x 19 in Painting ID:: 10642
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