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Frederic Edwin Church
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July Sunset, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Painting ID:: 89697
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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 |
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July Sunset, Berkshire County, Massachusetts |
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Oil on canvas
1847 101.6 x 73.66 cm (3' 4" x 29")
1847
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