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Icebergs frederic edwin church1/28/2024 New England Scenery (1851) was Church's "first true composite landscape"-it used sketches from various locations to develop a more detailed and spatially complex landscape than found in Cole's work. He took his own students including Walter Launt Palmer, William James Stillman and Jervis McEntee. In 1848, he was elected as the youngest Associate of the National Academy of Design and was promoted to full member the following year. His first recorded sale of a painting was in 1846 to Hartford's Wadsworth Athenaeum for $130 it was a pastoral depicting Hooker's journey in 1636. During his time with Cole, he travelled around New England and New York to make sketches, visiting East Hampton, Long Island, Catskill Mountain House, The Berkshires, New Haven, and Vermont. Cole wrote that Church had "the finest eye for drawing in the world". Church studied with him for two years by this time his talent was more than evident. In 1844, aged 18, Church became the pupil of landscape artist Thomas Cole in Catskill, New York after Daniel Wadsworth, a family neighbor and founder of the Wadsworth Athenaeum, introduced the two. The family's wealth allowed Frederic to pursue his interest in art from a very early age. His mother's brother was Adrian Janes, who owned an iron foundry that constructed the U.S. His father was successful in business as a silversmith and jeweler and was a director at several financial firms. Frederic had two sisters and no surviving brothers. In his prime, he was one of the most famous painters in the United States.įrederic Edwin Church was a direct descendant of Richard Church, a Puritan pioneer from England who accompanied Thomas Hooker on the original journey through the wilderness from Massachusetts to what would become Hartford, Connecticut. He debuted some of his major works in single-painting exhibitions to a paying and often enthralled audience in New York City. Church's paintings put an emphasis on realistic detail, dramatic light, and panoramic views. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets. Frederic Edwin Church was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut.
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