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
Asher Brown Durand was an American engraver and painter of the Hudson River School.
Asher Brown Durand, c. 1869, by Abraham Bogardus
Asher Durand, Kindred Spirits, 1849
L-R: Henry Kirke Brown, Henry Peters Gray and Durand, 1850
The First Harvest in the Wilderness, c. 1855, Brooklyn Museum