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Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848) - United Kingdom (Bolton)
Hudson River School, Romanticism
Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 – February 11, 1848) was an English-born American artist known for his landscape and history paintings. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's work is known for its romantic portrayal of the American wilderness. Born in Bolton l...... |
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Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902) - Germany (Solingen)
Realism, Hudson River School, Romanticism, Luminism
Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was an American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. To paint the scenes, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder ...... |
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Thomas Moran (1837 - 1926) - United Kingdom (Bolton)
Hudson River School
Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 – August 25, 1926) from Bolton, England was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth, took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist. He was a younger brother o...... |
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Asher Brown Durand (1796 - 1886) - United States (Maplewood)
Hudson River School
Asher Brown Durand (August 21, 1796 – September 17, 1886) was an American painter of the Hudson River School. Durand was born in and eventually died in Maplewood, New Jersey (then called Jefferson Village), the eighth of eleven children his father was a watchmaker and a silversmith. Durand was apprenticed to an engraver from 1812 to 1817 and later ...... |
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Frederic Edwin Church (1826 - 1900) - United States (Hartford)
Hudson River School
Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, perhaps best known for painting large panoramic landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets, but also sometimes depicting dramatic ...... |
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Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823 - 1880) - United States (Greenfield)
Hudson River School
Sanford Robinson Gifford (July 10, 1823 – August 29, 1880) was an American landscape painter and one of the leading members of the Hudson River School. Gifford's landscapes are known for their emphasis on light and soft atmospheric effects, and he is regarded as a practitioner of Luminism, an offshoot style of the Hudson River School. Not to be con...... |
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John Frederick Kensett (1816 - 1872) - United States (Cheshire)
Hudson River School
John Frederick Kensett (March 22, 1816 – December 14, 1872) was an American artist and engraver. A member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists, Kensett's signature works are landscape paintings of New England and New York State, whose clear light and serene surfaces celebrate transcendental qualities of nature, and are ass...... |
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Thomas Worthington Whittredge (1820 - 1910) - United States (Springfield)
Hudson River School
Thomas Worthington Whittredge (May 22, 1820 – February 25, 1910) was an American artist of the Hudson River School. Whittredge was a highly regarded artist of his time, and was friends with several leading Hudson River School artists including Albert Bierstadt and Sanford Robinson Gifford. He traveled widely and excelled at landscape painting, many...... |
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William Trost Richards (1833 - 1905) - United States (Philadelphia)
Hudson River School
William Trost Richards (November 14, 1833 – November 8, 1905) was an American landscape artist. He was associated with both the Hudson River School and the American Pre-Raphaelite movement. William Trost Richards was born on 14 November 1833 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1846 and 1847 he attended the local Central High School. Between 1850 and ...... |
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Thomas Doughty (1793 - 1856) - United States (Philadelphia)
Hudson River School
Thomas Doughty (July 19, 1793 – July 22, 1856) was an American artist associated with the Hudson River School. Born in Philadelphia, Thomas Doughty was the first American artist to work exclusively as a landscapist and was successful both for his skill and the fact that Americans were turning their interest to landscape. He was known for his quiet,...... |
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Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823 - 1900) - United States (Staten Island)
Hudson River School
Jasper Francis Cropsey (February 18, 1823 – June 22, 1900) was an important American landscape artist of the Hudson River School. Cropsey was born on his father Jacob Rezeau Cropsey's farm in Rossville on Staten Island, New York, the oldest of eight children. As a young boy, Cropsey had recurring periods of poor health. While absent from school, Cr...... |
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William Stanley Haseltine (1835 - 1900) - United States (Philadelphia)
Hudson River School
William Stanley Haseltine (June 11, 1835 – February 3, 1900) was an American painter and draftsman who was associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting, the Hudson River School and Luminism. Born in Philadelphia to John Haseltine, a successful businessman, and Elizabeth Shinn Haseltine, an amateur landscape painter, Haseltine studied at the Un...... |
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Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837 - 1908) - United States (Portsmouth)
Hudson River School
Alfred Thompson Bricher (April 10, 1837 – September 30, 1908) was a painter associated with White Mountain art and the Hudson River School. Bricher was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was educated in an academy at Newburyport, Massachusetts. He began his career as a businessman in Boston, Massachusetts. When not working, he studied at the Low...... |
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Thomas Hill (1829 - 1908) - United Kingdom (Birmingham)
Hudson River School
Thomas Hill (September 11, 1829 – June 30, 1908) was an American artist of the 19th century. He produced many fine paintings of the California landscape, in particular of the Yosemite Valley, as well as the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Thomas Hill was born in Birmingham, England on September 11, 1829. His younger brother, Edward Hill, also bec...... |
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Daniel Huntington (1816 - 1906) - United States (New York)
Hudson River School
Daniel Huntington (October 4, 1816 – April 19, 1906), American artist, was born in New York City, New York, the son of Benjamin Huntington, Jr. and Faith Trumbull Huntington his paternal grandfather was Benjamin Huntington, delegate at the Second Continental Congress and first U.S. Representative from Connecticut. He studied at Yale with Samuel F.B...... |
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David Johnson (1827 - 1908) - United States (New York City)
Hudson River School
David Johnson (May 10, 1827 – January 30, 1908) was a member of the second generation of Hudson River School painters. Johnson was born in New York City, New York. He studied for two years at the antique school of the National Academy of Design and also studied briefly with the Hudson River artist Jasper Francis Cropsey. Along with John Frederick K...... |
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Jervis Mcentee (1828 - 1891) - United States (Rondout)
Hudson River School
Jervis McEntee (July 14, 1828 – January 27, 1891) was an American painter of the Hudson River School. He is a somewhat lesser-known figure of the 19th-century American art world, but was the close friend and traveling companion of several of the important Hudson River School artists. Aside from his paintings, McEntee's journals are an enduring lega...... |
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