Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL STYLE
Considered the first major American painting movement, the Hudson River School emerged in the first half of the 19th century with landscape paintings that celebrated the young country’s natural beauty. Most of its leading painters were based in New York City where they exchanged ideas and traveled to the nearby Hudson River Valley and Catskills Mountains to re-create their vistas. At a time when the city was increasingly dense, the Hudson River School artists extolled the vast and pristine qualities of the American landscape, a sentiment that would inform the conservation movement.
American art was dominated by portraiture and historical scenes before Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, began painting the Catskill Mountains in 1825. While the Hudson River School was informed by European art aesthetics, particularly the British focus on the sublime in nature, it was a style imbued with nationalism. The landscape painters who followed and studied under Cole would expand their focus from the Northeastern United States to places across the country, their work shared through prints and portfolios promoting an appreciation for the American wilderness — Niagara Falls, the mountain ranges that dot the American West and more — as the style blossomed during the mid-19th century.
Cole’s student Frederic Edwin Church as well as painters such as Albert Bierstadt, John Frederick Kensett, Asher Brown Durand and others became prominent proponents of the Hudson River School. The American art movement also had close ties to the literary world, including to authors like William Cullen Bryant, Henry David Thoreau and James Fenimore Cooper who wrote on similar themes. Although by the early 1900s the style had waned, and modernism would soon guide the following decades of art in the United States, the Hudson River School received renewed interest in the late 20th century for the dramatic way its artists portrayed the world.
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Style: Hudson River School
"West Point" John Ferguson Weir, Hudson River School Landscape with Sailboats
By John Ferguson Weir
Located in New York, NY
John Ferguson Weir
West Point, 1873
Signed and dated lower left
Oil on panel
12 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches
Provenance:
Sotheby's Arcade, American Paintings, December 19, 2003, Lot 1091
Spanierman Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York (acquired directly from the above)
Exhibited:
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, William Cullen Bryant, The Weirs and American Impressionism, April 24, 1983-July 31, 1983.
A painter, sculptor, writer, and teacher, John Weir was a highly talented man whose painting was overshadowed by his father, Robert Weir, the long-time West Point Academy drawing teacher, and his brother, J Alden Weir, well-known impressionist painter.
His distinguished reputation was primarily based on his accomplishments as a teacher and administrator. For many years, from 1869 to 1913, John Weir was the Director of the Yale University School of Fine Arts. He was also a commissioner of the art exhibition at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
Weir was born at West Point, New York, and by age 20, had a studio in New York City in the Tenth Street Studio Building, the first building in America dedicated to art studios, and there he associated with many leading painters of the day.
He earned attention early in his career for paintings of industrial scenes...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sunset on the Hudson River by Hermann Simon (American, 1846-1895)
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist Hermann Simon (1846-1895) , "Sunset on the Hudson River" is oil on canvas, measures 15 x 25 inches, and is signed and dated 1875 at the lower ri...
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19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cornwall Bridge
By Eric Sloane
Located in New York, NY
Cornwall Bridge
Oil on canvas
30 ½ x 24 ¾ inches unframed (77.47 x 62.865 cm)
Signed and inscribed (Cornwall Bridge Conn) on reverse
Description:
Eric Sloane is best known for his illustrations of "americana," and, throughout his life, devoted himself to painting this American world. This painting, titled "Cornwall Bridge," is included in one of his travel books...
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20th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Scene in the White Mountains by Alfred Thompson Bricher (American, 1837-1908)
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837-1908) , "Scene in the White Mountains" is oil on panel, measures 5.5 x 9.75 inches, and is signed and dated 1864 a...
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19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sunset over the River
Located in New York, NY
Monogrammed lower right: AB
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Board
Mink Hollow Brook by Hudson River Artist Jervis McEntee (American, 1828-1891)
Located in New York, NY
"Mink Hollow Brook," by Hudson River School artist Jervis McEntee (1828-1891) depicts the lush foliage, and rocky terrain surrounding a Catskill brook. This 19th century oil paintin...
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19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Twilight in the Hills
Located in Wiscasett, ME
A luminous Autumn oil on canvas board landscape, probably of the hills in the Hudson River Valley, by the noted American artist William Louis Sonntag (1822-1900). Signed in the lower right. Sonntag was born near Pittsburgh, PA and moved to Cincinnati, OH in the 1840’s to study art. He studied for a brief time with G. Frankenstein at the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Art and his idealized paintings of American wilderness and visionary paintings of imagined European ruins were commercially successful. He traveled twice to Europe in the 1850’s to improve his skills, eventually settling in New York City. He joined the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited his works for forty years. His mature works identify him with the Hudson River School of landscape painters. A romantic and naturalistic painter of his surroundings, Sonntag also created idealized paintings of Roman ruins, recalling his European trips of earlier years. Sonntag was an Associate (1860) and Academician (1861) at the National Academy of Design, and a member of the American Watercolor Society, Artists Fund Society, and the American Art Union...
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19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Into the Night
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left in arrowhead: RA Blakelock.
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
BLAZING Luminous SUNRISE Antique Marine Seascape Painting w/ SAILBOATs
By Edward Moran
Located in New York, NY
I’m selling this Beautiful Luminst Sunrise painting by Edward Moran (1829-1901) , a famous American Marine Hudson River painter and artist
The Luminescent Glow from the rising sun i...
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1870s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer along the Boquet River, 1875 by Julie Hart Beers (American, 1835-1913)
By Julie Hart Beers
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist Julie Hart Beers (1835-1913), "Summer along the Boquet River" is oil on canvas and measures 9 x 11 inches. It is signed and dated 1875 at the lo...
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19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gordon Setter in a Landscape by Otto Norquist (American: 1859-1906)
Located in New York, NY
Otto Norquist (1859-1906)
"Gordon Setter in a Landscape, 1890"
Oil on canvas
22 x 27 inches
Signed and dated 1890, lower right
Otto Norquist was born in...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Autumn Landscape
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful Autumn landscape likely of the Hudson River Valley by the revered American artist William Louis Sonntag (1822-1900). Sonntag was born near Pittsburgh, PA and moved to Cincinnati, OH in the 1840’s to study art. He studied for a brief time with G. Frankenstein at the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Art and his idealized paintings of American wilderness and visionary paintings of imagined European ruins were commercially successful. He traveled twice to Europe in the 1850’s to improve his skills, eventually settling in New York City. He joined the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited his works for forty years. His mature works identify him with the Hudson River School of landscape painters. A romantic and naturalistic painter of his surroundings, Sonntag also created idealized paintings of Roman ruins, recalling his European trips of earlier years.
Sonntag was an Associate (1860) and Academician (1861) at the National Academy of Design, and a member of the American Watercolor Society, Artists Fund Society, and the American Art Union...
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19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View on the Hudson, the Catskills in the Distance
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: F.A. SILVA.
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Catskill Mountains Landscape by Edward Delavan Nelson (American, 1821-1871)
Located in New York, NY
"Catskill Mountains Landscape," by Hudson River School painter Edward Delavan Nelson (American, 1821-1871) is oil on canvas and measures 15 x 24 inches. It is signed with the artist'...
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19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Harbour of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, " Julius Montalant, Maritime Port Trade
Located in New York, NY
Julius Montalant (1823 - 1898)
Harbour of Rio Janeiro, 1843-1850
Oil on canvas
17 x 24 inches
Signed and dated lower right; conservator's inscription on the reverse
Born in Virginia, probably Norfolk, Julius Montalant is known for his drawings and paintings inspired by his travels on board navy ships. Attached to the USS St. Louis around 1844-45, he sketched ports of call he visited, including Brazil, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, and China. Many of his works are held in the Museum of the U.S. Naval Academy. Navy records indicate his rank as 'C. Clerk', which may mean that he held a civilian position.
During the 1850s he lived in Philadelphia, and in 1851-61 he exhibited at the Philadelphia Art Union and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Included were paintings of North America, Greece...
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1850s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
[Mount Washington Winter Scene]
By Samuel Griggs
Located in Boston, MA
Signed and dated lower left: "SW Griggs 73". In fine condition.
Category
1870s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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"Grand Manan" Harrison Bird Brown, Maine Landscape, Hudson River School Seascape
Located in New York, NY
Harrison Bird Brown (1831 - 1915)
Grand Manan
Oil on canvas
12 x 20 inches
Signed with initials lower left
Harrison Bird Brown was born in 1831 in Portland, Maine, and is best known for his White Mountain landscapes and marine paintings of Maine's Casco Bay...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Landscape of Cows by Stream
By Joseph Antonio Hekking
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Joseph Antonio Hekking was a landscape and marine painter born in 1830 in the Netherlands and died in New York in 1903. He studied in Paris and was a talented draftsman who lived in Cherry Valley, NY, Hartford, CT, Detroit, MI, and Washington, D.C. He also exhibited paintings of the Adirondacks at the National Academy of Design (NYC). He served in the Civil War with a New York regiment and exhibited in the Detroit area after the war. He was a versatile and talented painter was active from the early 1850s to the later 1870s and he participated in major exhibitions. His paintings were inspired by visits to the Adirondacks and White Mountains. He is considered an important and relevant early American landscape...
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Early 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Early American Southern Hudson River School Boys Swimming Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare early American sunset Hudson River School swimming hole painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 7.25H by 10L.
Category
1860s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Hubbard Park, Crescent City, Florida" George Frederick Morse, Landscape
Located in New York, NY
George Frederick Morse
Hubbard Park, Crescent City, Florida, 1906
Oil on canvas
17 x 12 inches
A landscape and marine painter from Portland, Maine, George Morse was a founding membe...
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Early 1900s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hudson River School Style Painting, c. 1900
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, c. 1900
Oil on canvas
16 x 24 in.
Framed: 22 3/4 x 31 x 2 in.
Signed lower right
Category
Early 1900s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Ship Portrait, " William Edward Norton, Seascape Maritime Painting, New England
Located in New York, NY
William Edward Norton (1843 - 1916)
Ship Portrait, 1876
Oil on canvas
10 x 16 inches
Signed and dated lower left
Born in Boston, William Norton became a noted marine painter, stirred by his youth when he sailed on family-owned ships. He studied at the Lowell Institute in Boston, and with George Inness, and then established a studio in Boston.
In the early 1870s, he went to Paris and became a student with Chevreuse and A. Vollon, and then he settled in London where he exhibited throughout the last quarter of the 19th century. His reputation there was based on his scenes of the Thames River, and ocean and coastal views.
In 1901, he and his wife returned to the United States and settled in New York City. He also painted at Monhegan Island, Maine, where a treacherous ledge on the southern side of the island is named "Norton's Ledge" for him.
He was a member of the Boston Art Club with whom he exhibited from 1873 to 1909. He also exhibited with the Pennsylvania Academy, the Royal Academy in London, the Paris Salon, the 1893 Chicago Exposition...
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1870s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape -- Afternoon by the Pond
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous tonalist oil painting woman walking in field by pond with home in background by Willis Seaver Adams (American, 1844-1921), circa 1880. Trees and an amazing sky in the background add depth and interest to this beautiful piece. Signed "W. S. Adams" lower right corner. Condition: Previous restoration includes relining of canvas. Frame is vintage gilt molded and wood frame and shows previous repair of molding losses. Image size: 20"H x 24"W.
Auctions records for the artist exceed $6,000.
Willis Seaver Adams was known for his landscapes of the Connecticut River Valley. A relative recluse for much of his artistic life, his loneliness can be seen in much of his works. Oil miniatures were the focus for almost all of his later works. He is credited with over 425 oils, watercolors, and drawings.
Willis Seaver was born in 1844 on a farm in Suffield, near the Connecticut River. He intermittently attended the Suffield Academy, and always wanted to be a painter. A wealthy doctor became his patron, and financed his studies in 1868 at the Royal Academy in Antwerp. When the doctor passed away, Adams returned home and struggled to make a living painting. After working for a photographer for three years, he opened his own studio.
Adams helped organize Cleveland's first watercolor exhibit in 1876. Soon thereafter, he completed a portrait of Rutherford B. Hayes, then governor of Ohio, prior to his becoming President of the United States. This portrait enhanced Adams notoriety.
In 1878, Adams traveled to Italy where he opened a studio in Venice, and became friendly with neighbor James Whistler. Prior to returning to Springfield, Adams lived in Florence, Italy for three years. He returned to became an instructor for the Springfield Art Association, and began to exhibit his works at the galleries of James D. Gill. His first one-man exhibit was held there in 1894. Other successful exhibitions took place in Chicago, New York, and Boston. Although his works garnered respectable prices and reflected his success, Adams felt he was due more recognition.
In 1906, he moved to Greenfield, Massachusetts and converted a barn into a studio. There, he fell into relative obscurity, accompanied mainly by his dog, Collie. In 1921, Adams passed away.
Examples of Willis Adams works can be seen at the Kent Memorial Library, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the Suffield Academy. Several Suffield residents are thought to own Adams paintings.
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1880s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Oil Snow Landscape titled "Gathering Wood for Winter, New Haven, CT"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
George Henry Durrie's painting "Gathering Wood for Winter, New Haven, CT" captures the essence of 19th-century rural America with its picturesque depiction of a serene winter landsca...
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Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lights of the Aurora
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: W Bradford
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Hudson River School Seascape at Sunset
Located in Soquel, CA
Luminous Hudson River School landscape of sunset over water with red buoy in foreground and sailing ships in background in the style of Alfred Thompson Briche...
Category
1880s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
A Sketch of Derwentwater
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamp on verso; on stretcher bar: SEP 9th 1855
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
View by a Lake
By Ernest Parton
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Ernest Parton
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
THE WATERFALL - American School -Italian Landscape Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Napoli, IT
THE WATERFALL - Oil on canvas cm. 55x70 by Paolo De Robertis, Italy 2002.
The painting is inspired by the paintings of Thomas Hill, an American landscape painter belonging to the H...
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Early 2000s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Coastal Scene at Sunset with Ships
Located in New York, NY
Signed indistinctly lower right
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Chapel of the Madonna di Vitaleta, original realist Italian landscape
By Larry Felder
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
This original Hudson River School realist interpretation of the Chapel of the Madonna di Vitela, still standing in exceedingly picturesque Tuscany invites you into the heart of one ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil Landscape of West on Snake River
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Cyrenius Hall was an artist who painted Western landscapes in a luminous style. He first went to Portland, Oregon in 1853 and 1854 over the Oregon Trail. From there he executed views...
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Early 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1920s Century Country Creek Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene early 20th century landscape of a winding creek in verdant country side with a distant farmhouse in the background, by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century), c. 1920. Pre...
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1920s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Scale Early 20th Century Bucolic Mt. Hood Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous landscape with two cows drinking water in a pond with Mt. Hood in background by listed artist William M. Lemos (American, 1861-1942). Signed "W.M. Lemos" lower right. Presented in vintage gilt-toned frame that shows wear (included as-is). Condition: Good: previously owned and used, with little or no signs of wear and is in good condition. No structural issues. Image size: 29"H x 49"W.
Born in New York, Professor Lemos moved to San Francisco in 1887 where he established a studio at 106 Geary Street. He later moved to Santa Cruz in 1896, where he settled, painting murals for many local businessmen and the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.
As a boy Lemos earned money by wandering the streets and painting on request. Arriving in San Francisco in 1887, he established a studio at 106 Geary. With his wife Mabel, he worked in Los Angeles for a few years in the 1890s. After settling in Santa Cruz in 1896, he painted murals for many local businessmen. When the original Beach Casino was built there at the Boardwalk in 1904, Lemos was the first concessionaire and worked there for nearly 40 years. On his platform in the Casino, Lemos did paintings of redwoods, still lifes, forest fires, beach scenes, and marines. Many of his oils were done on redwood slabs which were popular with the tourists; in the early days these paintings sold for one dollar and up depending on the size of the work. After his vision failed and he was unable to paint, his last years were mostly spent fishing off the Municipal Pier with a friend who baited his hook for him because he could no longer see. In the March 27, 1941 Santa Cruz Sentinel News Lemos reminisced, "Them were the days when the Boardwalk was only twelve feet long and when business got slow I picked up my shotgun and went across the street and shot ducks where the Casa del Rey Hotel now stands." Exhibited: Calif. State Fair, 1885; Mechanics' Inst. (SF), 1889. In: Santa Cruz City Museum; Wawona Hotel (Yosemite).
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
His mother was Julia Lemos, a Chicago artist famous for her depiction of the Chicago fire, “Two of Julia’s children became successful artists. Her eldest son, William, was a naïve still life, landscape, and mural painter. As a young boy in New York, he would wander the streets, earning money for the family, by ‘painting on request.’ At age 26, William moved to San Francisco, California. He opened an art studio and kept it running until he moved to Santa Cruz with his wife, Mabel, in 1896. During this period, he worked as a fresco artist painting ‘murals for many local businessmen.’
Exhibited California State Fair, Sacramento, 32nd annual, per Sacramento Daily Union, September 9, 1885. and article goes on to say “William Lemos and wife, Sacramento – Art school exhibits in which are shown such a variety of designs in decorative art, flower painting, and ornamentation, that one must give time to the examination.”
Exhibited Mechanics Institute, San Francisco, 1889.
“Lemos and his wife were in Fresno California 1890...
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Early 20th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Trout Fisherman in a Mountain Stream
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower left: W. Whittredge 1861
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gray's Inn, Jackson, NH by Historic Woman Artist Anna Freeland (1837-1911)
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Historic Woman Artist Anna Freeland, "Gray's Inn, Iron Mountain and Wildcat River, Jackson, NH" depicts an autumn scene in the White Mountains. Painted in oil on canvas, the work measures 12 x 18 inches and is signed and dated 1891 at the lower left. The work is framed in a period appropriate frame and ready to hang.
Anna C. Freeland (1837-1911) was born in New Hampshire to Mary Ann (Baker) and William Chamberlain. She received her education at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary and Female College in Tilton, New Hampshire. She studied art in Chicago under Walter Shirlaw, at the Académie Julian in Paris under Constant, and in Boston under William A. Rimmer and William M. Hunt.[1] An artist as well as a respected teacher, Freeland was a founder of the Worcester Art Students Club whose members included Joseph H. Greenwood and Frank J. Darrah. Incorporated in 1887, the club held meetings in the homes of its members. The club began holding meetings and exhibitions at the Worcester Art Museum following its opening in 1898.[2]
Freeland offered instruction from her Worcester studio during the Winter months, and for over a decade, spent her summer working in her Jackson, New Hampshire studio.3 Her studio adjoined Gray’s Inn, a lodging establishment popular among artists. While busy executing figurative and floral works, as well as landscape and animal subjects, Freeland continued to teach. In 1886, she instructed a class of lady artists in Jackson.[4] In 1890, Freeland contributed several floral works as well as Portrait of Baby McClure, the infant daughter of an Art Students’ Club member, to the 10th annual exhibition of the club.[5] In 1902, Freeland was the instructor at an outdoor sketch class organized by the Newton Center Woman’s club.[6] In 1910, she exhibited with local artists including Joseph H. Greenwood at the
Worcester Art Museum.[7]
During her lifetime, Freeland exhibited locally and provided art instruction to notable artists including Walter Appleton Clark...
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19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
River Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: L.W.Prentice.
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Greek Ruins"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Lower Right
Known for his marine, history, and portrait paintings, Franklin Briscoe was born in Baltimore, Maryland and at age four moved with his family to Philadelphia where he later became a student of Edward Moran and where eventually he settled his studio.
Briscoe made extended ocean voyages, including trips to Europe where he saw much painting in galleries, and from these adventures and observations developed his landmark paintings of the ocean and ships in all kinds of weather conditions.
In 1885, he painted an historical mural that was in ten panels, a total of 230 feet long, and 13 feet tall--"The Battle of Gettysburg...
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19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New England Coastal Scene with Figures
Located in New York, NY
Monogramed and dated lower right: JF.K. / ‘64.
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Hudson River School Panoramic Vista View Oil On Paper Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American Hudson River School panoramic landscape oil painting. Oil on paper. Framed. Apparently unsigned. Image size, 13L x 8.5H.
Category
1870s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fishing by the Stream
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right
Dewitt Clinton Boutelle’s landscape paintings embody the grandeur and tranquility of the Hudson River School. In this imagined scene, a lone fisherman stands on t...
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1860s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Joachim Ferdinand Richardt, River Baptism
By Joachim Ferdinand Richardt
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This mid-19th-century oil painting by Danish-American artist Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (1819-1895) depicts a congregation observing a river baptism, probably in the Mississippi River.
In 2009, at President Obama’s Inauguration luncheon, a panoramic view of Niagara was selected as the backdrop to his speech. It’s a breathtaking image, capturing the sublimity of the American Falls and the Horseshoe Falls in all their iconic majesty. The ‘Maid-of-the-Mist’, negotiates the rapids, a mere speck within a broad expanse of water. While beyond, a colossal sheet of spray is sharply illuminated through passing clouds.
It was painted by the son of a bookbinder, a humble Danish artist who travelled extensively across the United States to document its nature, buildings and civilization. Admired in his own lifetime, this unassuming adventurer produced scores of resplendent vistas but also numerous vignettes documenting everyday activities.
Joachim Ferdinand Richardt was initially destined to become a carpenter but, thankfully, enrolled at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under three distinguished masters. Blessed with a skill for drawing, he was awarded medals and in 1839 began exhibiting at the prestigious Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition. In 1841, the Danish Royal Family acquired one of his works and six years later granted him a five-year stipend.
Richardt trained at a time of exceptional creative output whereby Denmark was developing a clearer identity. Dubbed ‘National Romanticism’, artists were extolling their country’s natural beauty, while also celebrating humble folk life within rural environs. Stylistically, their work is somewhat comparable with German Romanticism...
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1860s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rapelyea House, New York, William Rickarby Miller, Hudson River School Landscape
Located in New York, NY
William Rickarby Miller
Rapelyea House, New York, 1884
Signed and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
20 x 30 inches
Provenance:
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Born in Staindrop, County Durham, England, he was a portrait and landscape painter, especially appreciated for watercolor painting, which he sold through the American Art Union...
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1880s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vista From West Campton, New Hampshire
By Frederick Williams
Located in Milford, NH
A fine New Hampshire landscape by American artist Frederick Dickinson Williams (1829–1915). Frederick Dickinson Williams was born into a patrician household in Boston, Massachusetts and attended the prestigious Boston Latin School before entering Harvard University in 1846. After graduation and until 1874, Williams taught drawing and painting in the Boston Public School System as a Professor of Drawing until 1874. Williams and his wife, the former Lucia M. Hunt, of Newburyport, relocated to Paris, France, where both studied the new French art and painted landscapes and genre scenes in their studio until 1888, when Lucia died in Paris.
Williams returned to the United States and settled in Boston, opening a studio in late 1888. He continued to paint in the Boston area with regular trips to the White Mountains of New Hampshire and other wilderness areas where he produced a large body of French-inspired landscapes in the manner of Corot and other contemporary French painters. In 1904, a serious fire in his Boston studio destroyed all of his inventory, including a number of award-winning canvases from his Paris sojourn. Despite this significant loss, he continued to paint. During his long and successful career, Williams exhibited his work at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Washington DC Art...
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Panoramic YOSEMITE VALLEY Western California Encampment Landscape Figures
Located in New York, NY
Joseph John Englehart (1867-1915) was a prolific American landscape painter who painted in realist style. He was born on June 14, 1867 in Chicago, Illi...
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19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hudson Highlands by Lockwood DeForest (American, 1850-1932)
Located in New York, NY
"Hudson Highlands," by Hudson River School painter Lockwood DeForest (American, 1850-1932) is oil on artists card-stock and measures 9.5 x 14 inches. The work is framed in an elegant, period appropriate frame, and ready to hang.
Lockwood de Forest was born in New York in 1850 to a prominent family. He grew up in Greenwich Village and on Long Island at the family summer estate in Cold Spring Harbor. As was customary for a cultivated family in the Gilded Age, the de Forests made frequent trips abroad. Excursions to the great museums, which were prominent on the de Forests agenda, deepened the young Lockwood's familiarity with European painting and sculpture. Though he had begun drawing and painting somewhat earlier, it was during a visit to Rome in 1868 that nineteen-year-old de Forest first began to study art seriously, taking painting lessons from the Italian landscapist Hermann David Salomon Corrodi (1844–1905). More importantly, on the same trip, Lockwood met one of America’s most celebrated painters, (and his maternal great-
uncle by marriage) Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), who quickly became his mentor. DeForest accompanied Church on sketching trips around Italy and continued this practice when they both returned to America in 1869. Early on in his career, de Forest made a habit of recording the date and often the place of his oil sketches, as to create a visual diary of his travels. Lockwood’s profession as a landscape painter can be primarily attributed to Frederic E. Church and his belief in the young artist’s talent.
De Forest often visited Church in the Hudson River community of Catskill where, in addition to sketching trips and afternoons of painting, he assisted with the architectural drawings and planning of Olana. In 1872, de Forest took a studio at the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York. During these formative years de Forest counted among his friend’s artists such as Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823–80), George Henry Yewell (1830–1923), John Frederick Kensett (1816–72), Jervis McEntee (1828–91), and Walter Launt Palmer (1854–1932).
Over the next decade de Forest experienced success as a painter. He exhibited for the first time at the National Academy of Design in 1872, and made two more painting trips abroad, in 1875–76 and 1877–78, traveling to the major continental capitals but also the Middle East and North Africa. His trip to the Middle East and the library at Church’s home, Olana, established his interest in design during his mid-twenties. From about 1878 to 1902, landscape painting was overshadowed by his activities and preoccupation with East Indian architecture and décor, a style that became quite fashionable in late nineteenth century America. From 1879-1883, de Forest founded Associated Artists along with Louis Comfort Tiffany, Candace Wheeler...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
At Pasture
Located in New York, NY
Leading Hudson River School Painter Famous for New England Views
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Southern Landscape Oil Painting Hudson River School
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Copyright 2023 Michael F. Meyer
All rights Reserved.
This painting, signed RSD on right side, has been verified by the late expert on Robert S. Duncanson, Joseph Ketner and comes with an authentication letter. This painting has exhibited and is published in Robert S. Duncanson and His Courageous Southern Travels.
This painting is one of the many beautiful southern landscape scenes that Robert S. Duncanson painted in his courageous travels south. "Robert S. Duncanson born in 1819, was an African American Hudson River School artist who painted the south before the Civil War, until his death in 1872. Although widely famous during his lifetime, this forgotten artist’s courageous journey through the antebellum south has never before been exhibited or researched until now. His brilliance was in creating captivating landscape paintings that come alive to the viewer, by focusing on the minute details of nature and of the stories he wished to communicate. Robert Duncanson...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Covered Bridge Deep in the New England Forest
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Covered Bridge Deep in the New England Forest is a captivating work that exemplifies the essence of the Hudson River School's artistic vision. This painting portrays a covered bridge...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunset Landscape, 1868
Located in New York, NY
F. Alexander Wust paints a stellar sunset over a hillside with light red color in his artwork entitled, “Sunset Landscape.”
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Walking Home in the Snow
By John Carleton Wiggins
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Walking Home in the Snow by John Carleton Wiggins is a captivating winter landscape that evokes the tranquil beauty of rural life. The painting depicts a lone figure, likely a young ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Birch Tree in Maine, " Hudson River School Antique Landscape, White Mountains
Located in New York, NY
Harrison Bird Brown (1831 - 1915)
Birch Tree in Maine, New England, 19th Century
Oil on canvas
25 x 13 1/8 inches
Initialed lower left
Provenance:
Portland International Galleries, Maine
Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, Jr., Saratoga Springs, New York and Lexington, Kentucky (President of Brooklyn Borough Gas Company)
Private Collection, Chicago
Exhibited:
Portland Maine, Portland Museum of Art, 58 Maine Paintings 1820-1920: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, Jr., May 20 - June 20, 1976, cat. no. 11.
The above catalogue listing this vertical landscape will be included with your purchase.
"Mr. Brown has succeeded fully in accomplishing that which Mr. John Ruskin, in speaking of J. M. W. Turner's sea views, said no painter had yet accomplished; that is, the representation of the creamy foam which the storm lashes up from the waves along a rocky shore."
Harrison Bird Brown was born in 1831 in Portland, Maine, and is best known for his White Mountain landscapes and marine paintings of Maine...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Niagara Falls with View of Clifton House
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated right of center: J.F. Cropsey / 1852
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Niagara Falls" Victor de Grailly, Hudson River School, New York Landscape
By Victor de Grailly
Located in New York, NY
Victor de Grailly
Niagara Falls, circa 1840-45
Oil on canvas
28 7/8 x 21 1/4 inches
Provenance:
Mark Borghi Fine Art, New York
Private Collection, Nyack, New York
Little is known a...
Category
1840s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Spring Garden
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right in arrowhead: R A Blakelock; on verso: A Spring Garden
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Landscape Silhouette at Twilight
Located in New York, NY
Signed illegibly lower right
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ocean Landscape of Sailing off the Coast
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This coastal landscape is done by the famed painted William Frederick De Haas (1830-1880). This painting shows two men in a canoe paddling off the cliff shore in the foreground with ...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunset Along the Front Range, Colorado, 1900s Traditional Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
This stunning, original signed landscape painting by Charles Partridge Adams (1858-1942) captures the breathtaking beauty of a Colorado sunset along the Front Range, near Denver. The...
Category
Early 20th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Hudson River School landscape paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Hudson River School landscape paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add landscape paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Ralph Albert Blakelock, Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Jasper Francis Cropsey, and John Frederick Kensett. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Hudson River School landscape paintings, so small editions measuring 4.75 inches across are also available. Prices for landscape paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $400 and tops out at $875,000, while the average work sells for $15,000.
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