Jesse Talbot was an American landscape painter and a friend of the poet Walt Whitman. Born in Dighton, Massachusetts, Talbot worked for the American Tract Society and other evangelical Christian organ
After Jesse Talbot, Rockland Lake, in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir: An Offering for Christmas and the New Year (Boston: David H. Williams, 1842).
Jesse Talbot (American, 1805–1879), Christian at the Cross, 1847, oil on canvas, 29 x 57 in. Private collection. Photo by Bif Hendrix
Jesse Talbot, Tropical Scenery–Early Morning, 1850, oil on canvas. Collections of the Dyer Library and Saco Museum, Saco, Maine. Photo by Martha Cox.
Thomas Cole was an Anglo-American artist who founded the Hudson River School art movement. He painted romantic landscapes and history paintings. Influenced by European painters, but with a strong Amer
Daguerreotype of Cole by an unknown photographer, c. 1845, published within the Archives of American Art Journal
The Oxbow (The Connecticut River near Northampton) (1836)
The Titan's Goblet (1833), oil on canvas; 49 × 41 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York