mk48
April 1869
Brush and oil paint,over black chalk on cream paperboard
12 15/16x16 5/16in
Cooper-Hewitt,National Design Museum,Smithson Institution,Gift of Louis P.Church
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.
