USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Frederic Edwin Church, (born May 4, 1826, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.-died April 7, 1900, near New York, New York), American Romantic landscape painter who was one of the most prominent members of the Hudson River school.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Hudson River School was America’s first true artistic fraternity. Its name was coined to identify a group of New York City-based landscape painters that emerged about 1850 under the influence of the English émigré Thomas Cole (1801–1848) and flourished until about the time of the Centennial.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas Cole (1801-1848) Founder of the Hudson River School of painting. Thomas Cole was born in 1801 at Bolton, Lancashire in Northwestern England and emigrated with his family to the United States in 1818. In 1825, Cole discovered the haunting beauty of the Catskill wilderness.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Cole is considered the best among America’s painters and the leading painter in the early 19th century. While he portrayed the Hudson River Valley in minute detail, he also created sublime imaginary vistas with clever use of light.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. The paintings typically depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, including the Catskill, Adirondack, and White Mountains.