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Frederic Edwin Church
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New_England_Landscape
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1847_Oil_on_canvas_
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14.5_x_20.25_in.
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New England Landscape
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| 1847 Oil on canvas
Colorado Springs
Fine Arts Center,
Colorado;
14.5 x 20.25 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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