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.
The Falls of Tequendama,Near Bogota,New Granada mk48
1852
Oil on canvas
64x40in
Cincinati Art museum,The Edwin and Virginia Irwin Memorial
Painting ID:: 26189
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
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
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
Painting ID:: 26191
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.