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Frederic Edwin Church
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Hooker_and_Company_Journeying_through_the_Wilderness_from_Plymouth_to_Hartford_in_1636
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Oil_on_canvas_
Wadsworth_Athaneum_
Hartford,_Connecticut_
40.25_x_60.38_in
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Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford in 1636
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Wadsworth Athaneum
Hartford, Connecticut
40.25 x 60.38 in |
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American Hudson River School Painter, 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. This was an unusual honour
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