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Bierstadt, Albert  

American, 19th – 20th century, male.

Active in the United States.

Born 7 January 1830 , in Solingen, near Düsseldorf; died 18 February 1902 , in New York.

Painter (including gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman, illustrator, photographer. Figures, local figures, landscapes with figures, landscapes, waterscapes, mountainscapes, urban landscapes, seascapes, animals, insects...

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Catlin, George  

American, 19th century, male.

Born 1796, in Wilkes-Barre (Pennsylvania); died 1872, in Jersey City (New Jersey).

Painter (gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman, illustrator, lithographer. Portraits, genre scenes, local scenes, hunting scenes, animals, landscapes.

Hudson River School.

George Catlin was educated as a lawyer and practised in Philadelphia for two years. He then turned to art study and became a portrait painter in New York City. In the 1820s he decided that he would make it his life's work to record the life and culture of American Indians living on the Plains and in ...

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Lane, Fitz Hugh  

American, 19th century, male.

Born 19 December 1804, in Gloucester (Massachusetts); died 14 August 1865, in Gloucester.

Painter, engraver, illustrator. Seascapes, landscapes.

Hudson River School.

Fitz Hugh Lane was partially disabled, and learned drawing and lithography from an engraver in Boston. He worked in advertising between 1830 and 1840 and then devoted himself to pictorial art. He travelled to Boston and in Maine, painting seascapes. He belonged to the second generation of the Hudson River School and liked to reproduce the effects of light on water....