Hudson River School Art
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
Portrait of Mother, Child, and Dog titled "The Cradle and the Companion"
By Henry Bacon
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This tender interior scene by Henry Bacon captures a moment of warmth and domestic harmony. A young mother leans gently over a carved red cradle while her daughter, dressed in a whit...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
Coastal Scene at Sunset with Ships
Located in New York, NY
Signed indistinctly lower right
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Night Glow
Located in New York, NY
Ralph Albert Blakelock was a romanticist American painter known primarily for his landscape paintings related to the Tonalism movement.
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil
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...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Art
Materials
Oil
Oil Landscape of a Mountain Sunset
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Régis François Gignoux (1816–1882) was a French-American landscape painter known for his contributions to the Hudson River School. Gignoux quickly became an integral part of the Amer...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Campfire at Sunset, 1867
Located in New York, NY
In “Campfire at Sunset,” George Inness captures a stunning sunset with a smoldering campfire set on a lakeside.
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of Lake Champlain, c. 1857 by James MacDougal Hart (American: 1828–1901)
Located in New York, NY
JAMES MCDOUGAL HART (1828–1901)
View of Lake Champlain, c. 1857
Oil on canvas
26 3/16 x 36 1⁄4 inches
Signed lower center
Exhibition History: National ...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil
Oil Sunset titled "Virginia Sunset"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
William H. Langworthy (1836–1900) was an American painter known for his contributions to landscape and genre painting during the late 19th century. Little is known about Langworthy's...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Grandmother and Grandson titled "Peeling Apples"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
John George Brown (1831–1913) was a prominent British-born American painter, renowned for his genre paintings that vividly depict the everyday life of chi...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View by a Lake
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Ernest Parton
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil
$37,500
Oil Miniature Sailboat Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Frederick J. Sykes (1851-1905) was a remarkable artist of the Hudson River School, renowned for capturing the serene beauty of tranquil landscapes. His work often featured New Englan...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Board
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...
Category
Early 19th Century Hudson River School Art
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"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...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ausable
By William Ongley
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
A landscape and marine painter, William Ongley was born in England in 1836 and came to America with his family and settled in New York. His art studies took him ...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$10,000
Oil Summer Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
James Renwick Brevoort (1832–1918) was an influential American landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School, a mid-19th century art movement known for its romantic portr...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Indian Summer
Located in New York, NY
Monogrammed and dated lower right: JW. 71; on verso: Indian Summer / By Jw. Williamson / N. Y. 1871 –
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil
Oil Portrait of Child and Baby Sisters Playing
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This beautiful oil on canvas painting of two sisters playing by the famous American Artist John G Brown has been lined. There is a slight touch up, and i...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marco Aurelio Tricca Pastoral Landscape Oil, 1929
Located in Astoria, NY
Marco Aurelio Tricca (American, 1880-1969), Pastoral Landscape Scene, Oil on Canvas mounted on Board, 1929, signed and dated to verso, carved wood frame. Image: 24" H x 30" W; frame:...
Category
Early 20th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pastoral Landscape titled "Cows Resting"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
James McDougal Hart (1828-1901) was a prominent American landscape painter and a key figure in the Hudson River School. His landscapes are characterized by their serene and idyllic q...
Category
Late 18th Century Hudson River School Art
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 Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
A Friend of a Friend (oil painting of young boys in landscape)
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Richard Law Hinsdale (1832–1874) was an American painter known for his contributions to landscape and genre painting during the mid-19th century, mostly in the Hudson River School. He received brief instruction from Alexander Emmons, Philip Hewins and Jared B Flagg as well as being exhibited in American art...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, 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...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Watercolor Landscape of Natural Bridge, Virginia
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
William Guy Wall, a renowned artist of the early 19th century, is celebrated for his exquisite landscape paintings, and particularly with this watercolor. This painting, titled, "Nat...
Category
Early 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Hudson River School Watercolor Titled Fishing the Creek
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
David Johnson was born in 1827 in New York City. Beginning in 1845, he studied for two years in the antique school of the National Academy of Design. His classmates and colleagues in...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Creek Meets River: Hudson River School Landscape Painting of Water and Mountains
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern Luminist, Hudson River School landscape painting on canvas of a creek and river meeting around a forest bend with mountains in the distance
"Where Creek Meets River" by Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, painted in 2021
Horizontal landscape painting, 36 x 48 inches unframed with white painted sides
wired on reverse for easy hanging
Artist's signature is located on lower left
This modern Hudson...
Category
2010s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
'Woodland Stream', Paris, New York, Hudson River School, Luminism, AIC, PAFA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Arthur Parton' (American, 1842-1914) and painted circa 1885.
This notable Hudson River School painter first studied under William Trost Richards, from whom he g...
Category
1880s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Postcard
Twilight on the Sawmill River
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower right: J.F. Cropsey 1887
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Warning
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Edward Lamson Henry (American, (1841 - 1919))
“The Warning”
Grisaille on paper mounted on board, signed lower left ‘E L Henry’ (partially obscured by frame)
...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Board, Laid Paper
A Thunder Shower on Lago Maggiore, North Italy
By Thomas Ralph Spence
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Thomas Ralph Spence’s "A Thunder Shower on Lago Maggiore, North Italy" captures a dramatic moment of nature’s power over the serene landscape of Lago Maggiore. Known for his architec...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Board
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 Art
Materials
Oil
Large Antique American Hudson River School Waterfall Landscape Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American rare woman artist Hudson River School waterfall landscape by Susan E. W. Fuller (1831 - 1907). Oil on canvas. Signed. Large and impressive painting. Handsomely fr...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn River with Punt in the Reeds by M.J. Walters (American, 1837-1883)
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist Mary Josephine Walters (1837-1883), "Autumn River with Punt in the Reeds" is oil on canvas and measures 13.25 x 23.75 inches. It is inscribed in...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Enjoying Old Times
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Enjoying Old Times" by Charles Baker captures a poignant and joyful moment in the life of an older man, immersed in the beauty of nature. The painting features the man in the midst of a hike, his weathered walking stick in one hand, and a bottle of champagne in the other. His gaze is fixed on the bottle, a focused and content expression playing on his lips, suggesting a celebration of memories or perhaps a spontaneous toast to the present moment.
Baker’s use of warm, earthy tones highlights the natural surroundings, with the man standing against a backdrop of greenery, a rocky path, and a clear, open sky. The composition is rich in detail, from the rugged texture of the man’s clothes...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Mending the Nets at Sunset" James Brade Sword, Atmospheric, Hudson River School
Located in New York, NY
James Brade Sword
Mending the Nets at Sunset
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
12 x 20 inches
James Brade Sword was born in Philadelphia, but from aro...
Category
1880s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Resting Beneath the Trees by the Stream
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
George Owen's "Resting Beneath the Trees by the Stream" is a quintessential Hudson River School painting that encapsulates the majesty and sublime beauty of the American landscape. T...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
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...
Category
1880s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Twilight in the Marshes
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: J.R. Brevoort.
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Landscape of Cows by Stream
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...
Category
Early 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hawley, Pennsylvania
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: RABlakelock
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marina Grande, Capri, with Figures
Located in New York, NY
Prominent Luminist Hudson River School painter.
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil
Livestock Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven, a luminary of 19th-century Belgian art, wielded his brush with unparalleled mastery, capturing the timeless allure of pastoral landscapes and noble anim...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Board
“Seaside Cliffs, California”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful original pastel on archival card stock from Paris of the craggy seaside cliffs of California by the well known Hudson River artist, George Douglas Bremerton. Signed lower left. Circa 1880. Condition is excellent. Under glass. The artwork is housed in its original ornate scroll designed frame. Overall framed measurements are 33 by 19 inches. Provenance: A East Coast Florida estate.
George Douglas Brewerton received lessons in art from Prof. Robert W. Weir at West Point where his father was Superintendent. In 1874, he was detailed to San Francisco as an officer in the Stevenson Regiment. In 1848, he underwent many adventures in Western deserts and mountains with Kit Carson, who crossed the country with news of the California Gold Rush. After serving as an aide to Gen. Rufus Saxton during the Civil War, Brewerton called himself “Colonel,” although he never received an army commission...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
$2,240 Sale Price
20% Off
On the Long Island Coast
Located in New York, NY
Prominent Luminist Hudson River School painter
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lake in the Mountains
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower left: D. F. Bigelow / 70
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Hills, Hunter Mountain
By Jervis McEntee
Located in New York, NY
Dated lower right: Sept. 67
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil
Mount Etna from Catania
Located in New York, NY
Prominent Luminist Hudson River School painter.
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil
Cattle by the Sea, c. 1867 by Ann Sophia Towne Darrah (American, 1819-1881)
Located in New York, NY
"Cattle by the Sea," c. 1867 by historic woman artist Ann Sophia Towne Darrah (American, 1819-1881) was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1867. Painted in oil...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Summer at the Farm by James McDougal Hart (American, 1828-1901)
Located in New York, NY
"Summer at the Farm," by Hudson River School painter James McDougal Hart (American, 1833-1915) is oil on canvas and measures 14 x 24 inches. It is signed and dated by Hart at the low...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil landscape of Autumn Forest
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This Hudson River School autumn landscape is done by the famed artist David Johnson. He studied at the national Academy of Design in New York. He was best known for the development o...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Western Lake Landscape, " John Fery, Hudson River School View
By John Fery
Located in New York, NY
John Fery (1859 - 1934)
Western Lake Landscape, circa 1920
Oil on canvas
21 x 23 1/4 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, New York
Born in Austria, John Fery earned a strong reputation for dramatic paintings of western mountain landscape in the United States. Glacier National Park in northwest Montana was a popular subject for him.
He was raised in a prominent, wealthy family that lived on an estate about nineteen miles northeast of Salzburg. His mother was Hungarian, and his father was born in Bohemia. S ome sources have written that he studied art in Dusseldorf, Germany with Peter Jansen, and also in Munich, Venice and Karlsruhe. But his "name does not appear in the records of the major art schools in any of these places, nor is there any record of his name at either the Vienna or Budapest academies." (Merrill 26) It is possible, however, that he received private instruction, and because of the sophistication of his painting, sources think it unlikely that he was self taught.
An early interest in wilderness scenery led him to painting American landscapes and hunting scenes. In the mid 1880s, he came to America and lived in the German community in Milwaukee, and then in 1886, brought his family to the United States. His wife, Mary Rose Kraemer (1862-1940), was born in Switzerland, and they had one child born near Munich and two others born in the United States. From 1886 to 1888, they lived in New York, and by 1890, Fery had made his first trip West.
He visited Yellowstone Park in 1891, and indicated in his writings that he had been there even earlier. From 1892 to 1893, he led European nobility on hunting expeditions to the American Northwest, made possible by the completion of the Northern Pacific Railroad...
Category
1920s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$9,600 Sale Price
20% Off
"East Hampton, New York" George Henry Smillie, Hudson River School, Long Island
Located in New York, NY
George Henry Smillie
East Hampton, New York, 1884
Signed lower left
Dated lower right
Oil on canvas
15 x 24 inches
Provenance
Cigna Museum and Art Collection
Questroyal Fine Art
T...
Category
1880s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sailing Through Choppy Waters at Sunset
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Sailing Through Choppy Waters at Sunset" captures the dramatic beauty of the American maritime experience, evoking both the power of nature and the resilience of the human spirit. T...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Road-Side View (View in Wisconsin)
By Seth Eastman
Located in New York, NY
Label on stretcher bar: No. 175. / AMERICAN ART-UNION. /Road-Side View / Painted by / Seth Eastman / Distributed December 20, 1850.
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil
Mount Hood From Clear Lake, Early 20th Century Large-Scale Panoramic Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Mount Hood From Clear Lake, Early 20th Century Large-Scale Panoramic Landscape
Large-scale panoramic oil painting landscape of Mount Hood from Clear Lake by William M. Lemos (Ameri...
Category
1930s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Oil, Linen, Stretcher Bars
Rare 19th Century Watercolor and Platinotype -- Coming Home
By Edward Lamson Henry
Located in Soquel, CA
Rare 19th Century Watercolor and Platinotype -- Coming Home
Wonderful and rare 19th Century watercolor and platinotype (Watercolor over Platinum photograph) attributed to Edward Lamson Henry...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Platinum
Antique American Sunset Landscape Hudson River School Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Important framed 19th century Hudson River School landscape. Possibly estate stamped. Housed in an impressive period frame. Oil on canvas.
Category
1860s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,800 Sale Price
20% Off
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Trout Fishing, 1871 by Hudson River School artist Ernest Parton (1845-1933)
Located in New York, NY
Hudson River School artist Ernest Parton's (1845-1933) "Trout Fishing," is oil on canvas, measures 11.25 x 15.75 inches, and is signed and dated 1871 at the lower left. The work is f...
Category
19th Century Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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