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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:: 26223
Chimborazo
mk48
1864
Oil on canvas
48x84in
Courtesy of the Huntington Library
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Painting ID:: 26224
Moonrise
mk48
January-March 1865
Oil on canvas
10x17in
Olana State Historic Site,New York State Office of Parks,Recreation and Historic Preservation.
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Painting ID:: 26225
Aurora Borealis
mk48
1865
Oil on canvas
56 1/8x83 1/2in
Smithsonian American Art Museum,Washington,D.C.
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Painting ID:: 26226
Aurora Borealis,Mt.Desert Island,from Bar Harbor,Maine
mk48
1860
Brush and oil paint on paperboard
10 3/8x13 7/8in
Cooper-Hewitt,National Design Museum,Smithsonian Institution.
Gift of Louis P.Church
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Painting ID:: 26227
The Vale of St.Thomas,Jamaica
mk48
1867
Oil on canvas
48 5/16x84 5/8in
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art,Hartford,Connecticut,Bequest of Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt
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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: | Frank O-Meara | Seymour Joseph Guy | William Holman Hunt | louvre | Albert Blaetter |
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