mk48
May1868
Brush and oil paint,graphite on tan paperboard
10x11/1/4in
Cooper-Hewitt,National Design Museum,Smithsonian Institution.Gift of Louis P.Church
Painting ID:: 26239
Frederic E.Church mk48
May1868
Brush and oil paint,graphite on tan paperboard
10x11/1/4in
Cooper-Hewitt,National Design Museum,Smithsonian Institution.Gift of Louis P.Church
Interior of the Temple of Bacchus,Baalbek,Syria 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.
