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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.
Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness in 1636 from Plymouth to Harford
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1846
Oil on canvas
40 1/4x60 3/16in
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art,Hartford,Connecticut,Purchased from the artist before 1850
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