Frederic Edwin Church
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Chimborazo Volcano
Painting ID:: 73948 new24/Frederic Edwin Church-535647.jpg
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Frederic Edwin Church
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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 |
Chimborazo Volcano |
oil on millboard, by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church. 7 in. x 10 in
Date 1884
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Related Paintings::. | The Holy Family with a Curtain | Place Royale de Dijon en 1781 | The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine | |
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