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Frederic Edwin Church
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Cross_in_the_Wilderness
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1857_
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Museum,_Madrid_
41.3_x_61.6_cm
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Cross in the Wilderness
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| 1857
Oil on canvas;
Thyssen-
Bornemisza
Museum, Madrid
41.3 x 61.6 cm |
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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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