American Hudson River School Painter, 1826-1900 ..American painter. He was a leading representative of the second generation of the HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL, who made an important contribution to American landscape painting in the 1850s and 1860s. The son of a wealthy and prominent businessman, he studied briefly in Hartford with two local artists, Alexander Hamilton Emmons (1816-84) and Benjamin Hutchins Coe (1799-1883). Thanks to the influence of the Hartford patron DANIEL WADSWORTH, in 1844 he became the first pupil accepted by Thomas Cole. This was an unusual honour Related Paintings of Frederic Edwin Church :. | Stockbridge,Mass. | South American Landscape | The Charter Oak | Scene on the Catskill Creek | Oil Study of Cotopaxi Frederic Edwin Church | Related Artists: Attributed to Wilkie painted The Christmas Party 1850 Walton Taber 1857-1933 Laurentius de Neter German , Born in Elbing circa 1600-1649