Hudson River School Paintings

A stunning antique American oil painting depicting a lake at dusk with a summer garden party in the distance. People mingle on the lawn of a vacation home alongside a quaint lake ...

Wonderful late 19th Century Hudson River School painting of New York with cattle in stream and mountains in background by Id...

Antique American Hudson River School landscape painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1870. Unsigned. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image, 30"L x 34"H.

George Henry Smillie (1840 - 1921) Path to the Lake, circa 1910 Oil on canvas 30 x 20 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Alex Fraser Galleries, Vancouver Private Collection, Vancouver The career of George Smillie (1840-1921) followed the arc of nineteenth-century U.S. landscape painting. Trained in the Hudson River School tradition, Smillie successfully adapted to changing U.S. tastes and growing interest in European trends. In the late 1800s, he moved to tonalist paintings full of brushwork and influenced by French Barbizon painting. By the end of his career, he had lightened his palette to produce works similar to those of the U.S. impressionists. Yet in all styles, he was never less than competent, and his tonalist work is among the best produced in the United States. Like many nineteenth-century painters, George Smillie’s artistic training began with the study of printing. His father, James Smillie...

Thomas Hill (1829 - 1908) Forest Interior, Artist's Brook, New Hampshire, 1870 Oil on board 22 x 15 inches Signed and dated lower left Housed in its original frame from 1870 Provenance: W.W. Warren, Boston, Massachusetts, by 1874 Private Collection, New York Private Collection, Fort Payne, Alabama (acquired from the above circa 2005) Exhibited: Boston Athenaeum, 1873, no. 159. Boston, Faneuil and Quincy Hall, The Twelfth Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, September - October, 1874, no. 28, p. 168. Literature: "The Exposition: A Sketch of the Great Show in Market Square," The Boston Daily Globe, September 18, 1874, no. 28, p. 2. Catherine H. Campbell, New Hampshire Scenery, Canaan, New Hampshire, 1985, p. 85. "Thomas Hill has all the facility of Albert Bierstadt and can make more pictures in a given time than any man I ever met. In one afternoon of three hours in the White Mountain forests I have seen him produce a study, 12x20 in size, full of details and brilliant light. There is his greatest strength, and his White Mountain wood studies have not been excelled" - Benjamin Champney, 1900 Immigrating from England in 1844, Thomas Hill came to America with his family as a youngster, and became one of America's most famous 19th-century landscape painter, especially of panoramic views of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Yosemite. He also painted landscapes of the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone National Park, where he was particularly fascinated by the geysers. Hill studied art in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy, and his first intentions were to become a history painter. However, he changed to landscape when he spent time in Europe, especially France among the Barbizon painters and in the studio of Paul Meyerheim. During the 1870s and 1880s, his work brought high prices, but diminished with the increasing popularity of modernism. In the latter half of the 20th century, his work was rediscovered, and he is now considered one of the major figures in American art. He settled with his family in Taunton, Massachusetts and worked in Boston with a carriage maker. He studied with Peter Rothermel at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and painted in Massachusetts and New Hampshire with George Inness, Asher Durand, Virgil Williams, Albert Bierstadt, and his brother, Edward Hill...

Hudson River School style landscape painting of a billowy cloud in a dark blue sky over a country marshland "Clouds Over Marsh" by Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, painted in 2019 oil on canv...

Antique American Hudson River School landscape. Oil on canvas, circa 1890. Signed lower right illegibly. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image, 12"L x 15"H.

Antique American Hudson River School valley landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1880. Unsigned. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image size, 18"L x 12"H.

A rare 19th century painting by American William Henry Hilliard (1836-1905), a painter of realistic, tonal landscapes related to the Hudson River School. An accomplished and renown...

William Trost Richards (1833 – 1905) Cormorant Rock, Conanicut Island, Rhode Island Oil on board 6 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches Signed lower right: “W.T.R.” Provenance: Roger King Gallery, N...

Modern, small landscape pastel drawing in Hudson River School style by Jane Bloodgood-Abrams Pastel on paper Image: 4.5 x 4.5 inches Frame and mat: 12 x...

American School oil on canvas depicting a fisherman on a lake at sunset, 1860. Reclined canvas. Condition is excellent. Signed and dated lower right, "EJ Jones / 1860". Canvas: 24"H ...