Painting ID:: 26183
The Natural Bridge,Virginia mk48
1852
Oil on canvas
28x23in
Gift of Thomas Fortune Ryan
Frederic E.Church 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. The Natural Bridge,Virginia mk48
1852
Oil on canvas
28x23in
Gift of Thomas Fortune Ryan
