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  Related Paintings of Frederic Edwin Church :. | Aurora Borealis | Frederic Edwin Church | Otter Creek, Mount Desert | Scene among the Andes | Morning, Looking East over the Hudson Valley from the Catskill Mountains |
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