Frederic E.Church mk48
ca.1846
Oil on canvas
24x34 1/4in
Florence Griswold Museum
Gift of The Hartford Steam Boiler
Inspection and Insurance Company
The Charter Oak at Hartford 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.
