Painting ID:: 56235
a country home mk247
1854,oil on canvas,32x51 in,81.5x130 cm,seattle art museum,seattle,wa,usa
Frederic Edwin Church 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 a country home mk247
1854,oil on canvas,32x51 in,81.5x130 cm,seattle art museum,seattle,wa,usa
