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Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. 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 perhaps the best-known representative of the Hudson River School of landscape painting as well as one its most traveled.
May 4, 2016 · Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut.
Frederic Edwin Church (born May 4, 1826, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.—died April 7, 1900, near New York, New York) was an American Romantic landscape painter who was one of the most prominent members of the Hudson River school.
Frederic Edwin Church was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on May 4, 1826, the only son of a wealthy businessman. Although his father hoped he would become a physician or enter the world of business, Church persisted in his early desire to be a painter.
Church is also well known for his South American views, his hugely successful Niagara, 1857 (The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), exotic subjects such as The Icebergs, 1861 (Dallas Museum of Fine Arts), and views of the Middle East.
May 4, 1826 - Apr 7, 1900. Frederic Edwin Church was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape...
Frederic E. Church was the first student of Thomas Cole, the father of the Hudson River School, who instilled in him his allegorical and majestic vision of the American scenery, which is already apparent in the young painter’s earliest landscapes of New England.
Frederic Edwin Church was the preeminent landscape painter and most successful American artist of the mid-nineteenth century. Born into a wealthy and connected Hartford family, Church became the first and only student of the leading painter of the Hudson River School, Thomas Cole (1801–1848) in 1844.
In 1857 Frederic Edwin Church revealed his seven-foot-wide painting Niagara. The one-picture exhibition was a sensation, cementing Church as the most important American artist of his day.
