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Hudson River School. The Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. Early on, the paintings typically depicted the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, including the Catskill, Adirondack, and White Mountains .
Commonly acknowledged as the founder of the Hudson River School, he painted scenes near his home in Catskill, New York [2] [3] Samuel Colman: More images: 4 March 1832 26 March 1920 National academician whose landscapes show the influence of the Hudson River School, he is believed to have studied under Asher Durand. Jasper Francis Cropsey: More ...
Olana State Historic Site is a historic house museum and landscape in Greenport, New York, near the city of Hudson. The estate was home to Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), one of the major figures in the Hudson River School of landscape painting. The centerpiece of Olana is an eclectic villa which overlooks parkland and a working farm ...
July 22, 1856 (aged 63) Resting place. Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. Known for. Landscape paintings and lithography. Movement. Associated with the Hudson River School. Thomas Doughty (July 19, 1793 – July 22, 1856) was an American artist associated with the Hudson River School. [1] [2] [3]
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, U.S. Education. Hudson River School. Known for. Landscape art. painting. Jasper Francis Cropsey (February 18, 1823 – June 22, 1900) was an American architect and artist. He is best known for his Hudson River School landscape paintings. [ 1]
Biography. Near Noroton Connecticut (1875) Johnson was born in New York City, New York. He studied for two years at the antique school of the National Academy of Design and also studied briefly with the Hudson River artist Jasper Francis Cropsey. Along with John Frederick Kensett and John William Casilear, he was best known for the development ...
In 1856, Sonntag permanently moved to New York to become a leading painter of Romantic landscapes of several scenes from his travels in Italy. [2] Sonntag was a member of the group known as the Hudson River School. Some of his paintings go beyond the movement to a grandiose expression of Manifest Destiny. [3]
Robert Walter Weir (June 18, 1803 – May 1, 1889) was an American artist and educator and is considered a painter of the Hudson River School. [1] Weir was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1829 and was an instructor at the United States Military Academy. His best-known work is Embarkation of the Pilgrims in the United States Capitol ...