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 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 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....
British, 19th – 20th century, male.
Active in the USA.
Born 12 January 1837, in Bolton (Lancashire); died 25 or 26 August 1926, in Santa Barbara (California).
Painter, watercolourist, engraver, lithographer. Figures, local scenes, landscapes, landscapes with figures.
Hudson River School.
Thomas Moran was taught by his brother Edward Moran. He travelled around France, England and Italy, then went to North America and settled in New York. He was one of the key figures of the Hudson River School and was influenced by Turner. In 1871 he made his first trip to the western Yellowstone region, joining a USA Geological Institute expedition. In 1873 he went with Major John Wesley to the Grand Canyon, which became one of his favourite sources of inspiration. He also left behind views of important American sites such as Yellowstone, Yosemite, Zion and the Teton range. Moran's landscapes are heavily imbued with a romantic and idealistic spirit. He transforms a vision of wild beauty, for example natural forms and forces aligned with bad weather, into an almost supernatural, but reasoned outburst. A fervent supporter of the early initiatives to create national parks, he is partly responsible for making Americans aware of the need to preserve their natural heritage....
