That year he sold his first major oil painting to the Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum, which had been founded by Wadsworth. The following year, 1848, Church was elected as the youngest Associate of the National Academy of Design and was promoted to Academician the following year. Church thrived under Cole’s tutelage and within a year, he had some of his paintings shown in the National Academy of Design annual exhibition. Frederic studied art at school and through a family neighbour, Daniel Wadsworth, was fortunate enough to be introduced to Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School, who agreed to take Frederic on as his pupil. His father, Joseph, was a silversmith and watchmaker and through his success and that of his father who had owned a paper mill, the Church household lived a prosperous lifestyle.

The artist is Frederic Edwin Church.įrederic Church was born in Hartford Connecticut in 1826. The paintings for which the group is named depict the Hudson River Valley and the area around the Catskill, Adirondack and the White Mountain ranges. My Daily Art Display for today returns to a painting by an American artist and another member of the Hudson River School, which was a mid-19th century American art movement personified by a group of landscape painters whose artistic vision was influenced by the 18 th century European Romanticism movement.

Frederic edwin church niagara falls