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...
American, 19th century, male.
Born 2 February 1814, in Boston; died 25 June 1889, in Malden (Massachusetts).
Painter, engraver (wood/copper). Genre scenes, landscapes, waterscapes.
Hudson River School.
Before going to Europe, where he studied in Paris and Florence, George Loring Brown illustrated children's books in Boston. He later returned to Boston and settled there in ...
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 ...
American, 19th century, male.
Born c. 1807 or 1808, in England; died 1866, in the USA.
Painter. Portraits, landscapes, seascapes.
Hudson River School.
Thomas Chambers arrived in the USA in 1832 and took American nationality. A painter of landscapes and portraits in the Naive style, he seems to have taken his inspiration from engravings of scenes of American life and he became well-known in New York in ...
American, 19th century, male.
Born 4 May 1826 , in Hartford (Connecticut); died 7 April 1900 , in New York.
Painter. Landscapes.
Frederic Edwin Church studied under Thomas Cole in Catskill, New York, and was an admirer of J. M. W. Turner. Keeping New York as his base, he made many journeys that provided him with subjects for his painting. When he returned from South America in 1859, he exhibited a painting that caused quite a stir, ...
American, 19th century, male.
Born 1816; died 1871.
Painter. Waterscapes, seascapes, landscapes.
Hudson River School.
Coates lived in New York City during his active period from 1837 to 1872. Brooklyn and New York City directories from those years list him as Edward, Edmund C., E.C. and E.G. Coates. He painted landscapes of Canada and Italy though it is not known if the artist traveled there or if other works inspired the scenes. He exhibited at the Apollo gallery and association in ...
American, 19th century, male.
Born 18 February 1823, in Rossville (Staten Island, New York); died 22 June 1900, in Hastings-on-Hudson (New York).
Painter (gouache), watercolourist, draughtsman, architect. Landscapes.
Hudson River School.
Jasper Francis Cropsey began his career as an architect, but gave up the profession to paint landscapes. He lived in Rome ...
American, 19th century, male.
Born 1793, in Philadelphia; died 1856, in New York.
Painter, lithographer. Genre scenes, landscapes.
Hudson River School.
Until the age of 30, Thomas Doughty worked as a currier for a leather merchant. He then studied painting from 1814 to 1820. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in ...
American, 19th century, male.
Born 21 August 1796, in Jefferson Village, now Maplewood (New Jersey); died 17 December 1886, in Maplewood (New Jersey).
Painter, engraver. History painting, portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, landscapes with figures.
Hudson River School.
Asher Brown Durand, a remarkable artist from a French family that fled to America at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, was a founder of the American National Academy of Design, and served as its president ...
American, 19th century, male.
Born 10 July 1823, in Greenfield (New York); died 24 August 1880, in New York.
Painter, watercolourist, draughtsman. Landscapes with figures, landscapes.
Sanford Robinson Gifford studied art in Hudson and at the National Academy of Design in New York. He became an associate of the National Academy in 1850 and a member in 1854. He travelled extensively, went to Europe several times and finally settled in New York in 1857....
American, 19th century, male.
Born 11 August 1819, in Lumberville (Pennsylvania); died 4 September 1904, in St Augustine (Florida).
Painter. Genre scenes, portraits, animals, landscapes, seascapes, flowers.
A pupil of Edward Hicks, Martin Johnson Heade started as a painter of portraits and genre scenes. He travelled to Europe between ...
American, 19th century, male.
Born 1 May 1825, in Newburgh (New York); died 3 August 1894, in Bridge of Allan, Scotland.
Painter. Landscapes with figures, landscapes.
Hudson River School (related to).
George Inness received some training from John Jesse Barker, a travelling artist, but was essentially self-taught by studying works of old masters while travelling in Europe. Through books, he also studied the art of Claude Lorraine. From 1841 to 1843, Inness worked as apprentice with the engraving firm of Sherman & Smith in New York. Inness made his first trip to Europe in 1851-1852, travelling particularly to Rome, followed by another trip during which he received some training from Régis François Gignoux. In 1870 he undertook a third trip, spending three years in Italy. Inness then went to paint a series of landscapes of Etretat cliffs, in 1874-1875....
American, 19th century, male.
Born 22 or 23 March 1818, in Cheshire (Connecticut); died 14 or 16 December 1872, in New York.
Painter. Landscapes with figures, landscapes, seascapes.
Hudson River School.
John Frederick Kensett entered Dagget's banknote engraving studio at a very young age, and studied art in his spare time. In ...
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....
American, 19th century, male.
Born 14 July 1828, in Rondout (New York); died 27 January 1891, in Rondout.
Painter. Figures, landscapes, flowers.
Hudson River School.
Jervis McEntee studied under Frederic Edwin Church who remained a close friend throughout his life. In 1857 McEntee became a charter resident of Richard Morris Hunt's Tenth Street Studio Building in New York. Here he and his wife held weekly salons frequented by artists, writers and actors committed to safeguarding traditional American art in the face of European modernism. His diaries from this period (...
American, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1749, in Chestertown (Maryland); died 24 May 1831, in Philadelphia.
Painter. History painting, portraits, landscapes, still-lifes. Miniatures.
Hudson River School.
James Peale the Elder was the pupil of his brother, Charles Willson Peale. He worked in Philadelphia from 1783 onwards. Having worked as a cabinet-maker, and served in the Continental Army during the Revolution, he settled in Philadelphia, where he specialised in miniatures until his sight failed. He was one of the so-called naive painters, in spite of the training he had received from his brother....
American, 19th century, male.
Born 29 September 1818, in New Haven (Connecticut); died 17 May 1871, in Cold Spring.
Painter. Mythological subjects, portraits, genre scenes.
Hudson River School.
Thomas Pritchard Rossiter began his artistic studies in his home town and established himself there as a portrait painter in 1838. In 1840, soon after being made an associate of the National Academy of Design in New York, he travelled to Europe. Rossiter stayed there five years, visiting London, Paris and Rome. When he returned to America in 1846, he quickly made a name for himself as a painter of historical and religious subjects. In 1849 Rossiter was made a member of the National Academy of Design, then in 1855 he won the gold medal at the Exposition de Paris. He made a second journey to Europe before settling in Cold Spring in 1860....
American, 19th century, male.
Born 1835, in New York; died 31 March 1886, in New York.
Painter. Landscapes, seascapes.
Hudson River School.
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American, 19th century, male.
Born 18 June 1803, in New Rochelle; died 1889, in New York.
Painter. Portraits, genre scenes, animals, landscapes.
Hudson River School.
Robert Walter Weir was a pupil of J.W. Jarvis and then of Benvenuti in Florence, and he also went to Rome. On his return to New York he was made a member of the National Academy of Design, and he taught for over 40 years at West Point Military Academy, where his pupils included Whistler....
American, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 22 May 1820, in Springfield (Ohio); died 25 February 1910, in Summit (New Jersey).
Painter, draughtsman. Portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, landscapes with figures, mountainscapes, flowers, animals.
Hudson River School.
Thomas Worthington Whittredge trained at the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Arts, and subsequently in Düsseldorf and Italy (mostly Rome). He settled in New York in the early 1860s, and was active as a landscape painter and leading member of the Hudson River School. He accompanied three military expeditions to the Rocky Mountains and New Mexico, to observe the landscapes, and the culture of the local Native American tribes. He initially supported himself by producing daguerreotypes and portraits, and sign-painting, before devoting himself to depicting the American landscape, with particular attention to light effects. In the last ten years of his life, he produced an autobiography which was first published in ...
