List of Hudson River School artists
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Artists are listed alphabetically by surname.

List of Hudson River School artists

Section Title: List
Table Section Text: Artists are listed alphabetically by surname.

Artist Name	Portrait	Famous Work	Birth	Death	Description	Refs

Charles Baker	-	1839	1888	An American landscape painter of the Hudson River School. He painted idyllic landscape paintings of an early American wilderness and the scenic vistas of the White Mountains in New Hampshire.

William Bliss Baker	-	1859	1886	An American artist who began painting just as the Hudson River school was winding down. He studied at the National Academy of Design under Bierstadt and de Haas, and maintained studios in Clifton Park, New York, and New York City, where he painted in oils and watercolors.

John Dodgson Barrow	-	24 November 1824	7 December 1906

Susie M. Barstow	1836	June 12, 1923	An avid hiker and early member of the Appalachian Mountain Club, she is known for light-filled landscapes that exude serenity.

Julie Hart Beers	-	1835	August 13, 1913	One of the few women of the Hudson River School to be commercially successful, she painted sweeping, well-balanced compositions with telling details.

Albert Fitch Bellows	-	20 November 1829	24 November 1883

Albert Bierstadt	-	-	7 January 1830	18 February 1902	A German-American painter best known for his large, detailed landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion.

DeWitt Clinton Boutelle	-

James Renwick Brevoort	-	20 July 1832	15 December 1918

Alfred Thompson Bricher	-	-	10 April 1837	30 September 1908	An American artist, one of the last painters in Hudson River school, known for his exploration of the effects of light and how it reflected, refracted, and absorbed on landscapes and seascapes.

George Loring Brown	-	-	2 February 1814	25 June 1889

William Mason Brown	-	1828	1898

Johann Hermann Carmiencke	-	1810	15 June 1867

John William Casilear	-	25 June 1811	17 August 1893	An engraver who was encouraged to take up painting by Asher Durand

Thomas Chambers	-

Charles H. Chapin	-

Frederic Edwin Church	-	4 May 1826	7 April 1900	A student of Thomas Cole, he became a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters. Church is perhaps best known for painting large panoramic landscapes, often depicting dramatic natural phenomena, with emphasis on light and a romantic respect for natural detail.

Thomas Cole	-	-	1 February 1801	11 February 1848	Commonly acknowledged as the founder of the Hudson River School, he painted scenes near his home in Catskill, New York

Samuel Colman	-	4 March 1832	26 March 1920	A National Academician whose landscapes show the influence of the Hudson River School, he is believed to have studied under Asher Durand.

Jasper Francis Cropsey	-	-	18 February 1823	23 April 1900	A first-generation member of the Hudson River School, he painted autumn landscapes that startled viewers with their boldness and brilliance. As an artist, he believed landscapes were the highest art form and that nature was a direct manifestation of God.

William Moore Davis	-	-	22 May 1829	26 March 1920

Lockwood de Forest	-	-	8 June 1850	3 April 1932

Victor DeGrailly	-

Thomas Doughty	-	19 July 1793	22 July 1856	The first American artist to work exclusively as a landscapist and was successful both for his skill and the fact that Americans were turning their interest to landscape.

Robert Duncanson	-	-	1821	21 December 1872	An African American artist painting before and during the Civil War whose landscapes were influenced by the Hudson River School

Asher Brown Durand	-	-	21 August 1796	17 September 1886	An engraver who took up landscape painting, he is particularly remembered for his detailed portrayals of trees, rocks, and foliage, especially with his masterpiece, Kindred Spirits.

Samuel P. Dyke	-

Alvan Fisher	-	-	9 August 1792	13 February 1863

William Charles Anthony Frerichs	-

Charles Henry Gifford	-

Sanford Robinson Gifford	Sanford R. Gifford	-	10 July 1823	29 August 1880	One of the leading members of the Hudson River School. Gifford's landscapes are known for their emphasis on light and soft atmospheric effects, and he is regarded as a practitioner of Luminism, an offshoot style of the Hudson River School.

Régis François Gignoux	-	1816	1882

Eliza Pratt Greatorex	-	-	25 December 1819	9 February 1897

Hamilton Hamilton	-	-	1 April 1847	4 January 1928	A painter and etcher, known mostly for his landscapes of the American West.

James McDougal Hart	-	-	10 May 1828	24 October 1901	A Scottish-born American landscape and cattle painter of the Hudson River School. His older brother, William Hart, was also a Hudson River School artist, and the two painted similar subjects.

William Hart	-	-	31 March 1823	17 June 1894	A Scottish-born American landscape and cattle painter, and Hudson River School artist. His younger brother, James McDougal Hart, was also a Hudson River School artist, and the two painted similar subjects.

William Stanley Haseltine	-	11 June 1835	3 February 1900	An American painter and draftsman who was associated with the Hudson River School and Luminism. By 1859 he was installed in the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York City, then a central point for American landscape painters; also in the building were Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, and Worthington Whittredge, the latter two having befriended Haseltine in Europe.

Robert Havell, Jr.	-	25 November 1793	11 November 1878

Martin Johnson Heade	-	-	11 August 1819	4 September 1904	A prolific artist who painted many different subjects including landscapes. There are mixed views as to whether Heade is part of the Hudson River School or was only partially influenced by it.

Hermann Ottomar Herzog	-	15 November 1831	6 February 1932	A German landscape painter who moved to Pennsylvania and painted subjects across the United States. He is considered a part of the Hudson River School, but typically painted a more realistic and less dramatic scene than Bierstadt or Church.

Thomas Hill	-	-	11 September 1829	30 June 1908	An English born painter, he moved to the United States at age 15. He produced many fine paintings of the California landscape, in particular of the Yosemite Valley, as well as the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Ransome Gillett Holdridge	-	1836	1899

George Inness	GeorgeInness.JPG	-	1 May 1825	3 August 1894

David Johnson	-	10 May 1827	30 January 1908	Johnson was born in New York City and studied for two years at the antique school of the National Academy of Design.

John Frederick Kensett	-	-	22 March 1816	14 December 1872	Kensett is best known for his landscapes of upstate New York and New England and seascapes of coastal New Jersey, Long Island and New England.

Charles Wilson Knapp	-

Edmund Darch Lewis	-	17 October 1835	12 August 1910

Homer Dodge Martin	-	-	28 October 1836	12 February 1897

George McCord	-	1 August 1848	6 April 1909

Jervis McEntee	Jervis McEntee	-	14 July 1828	27 January 1891	An American painter of the Hudson River School. He is a somewhat lesser-known figure of the 19th-century American art world, but was the close friend and traveling companion of several of the important Hudson River School artists.

Mary Blood Mellen	-	1819	1886	Mellen studied under Fitz Henry Lane and developed a luminist style for her landscapes and maritime subjects.

Louis Rémy Mignot	-

Charles Herbert Moore	-	10 April 1840	15 February 1930	Considered a minor member of the Hudson River School, Moore later began painting in the Pre-Raphaelite style. He later became the first art professor at Harvard University, and the first director of the university's Fogg Art Museum.

Thomas Moran	Thomas Moran-photographic portrait.jpeg	-	12 February 1837	25 August 1926	An artist of the Hudson River School. Thomas Moran's vision of the Western landscape was critical to the creation of Yellowstone National Park.

William Sidney Mount	-	-	26 November 1807	19 November 1868

Arthur Parton	-

Harriet Cany Peale	-	-	1799	1869

Frederic Remington	-	-	4 October 1861	26 December 1909

William Trost Richards	-	-	14 November 1833	8 November 1905

Ferdinand Richardt	-	-	10 April 1819	29 October 1895

Thomas Prichard Rossiter	-	-	20 September 1818	17 May 1871

Francis Augustus Silva	-

William Louis Sonntag Sr.	-	1822	1900

James Augustus Suydam	-	-	1819	1865

William Guy Wall	-	1792	1864

Mary Josephine Walters	-	1837	1883

Paul Weber	-	19 January 1823	12 October 1916

Robert Walter Weir	-	-	18 June 1803	1 May 1889	Elected to the National Academy of Design in 1829, Robert Weir was an American artist associated with the Hudson River School.

Worthington Whittredge	-	-	22 May 1820	25 February 1910	An American artist of the Hudson River School. He was a highly regarded artist of his time, and was friends with several leading Hudson River School artists including Albert Bierstadt and Sanford Robinson Gifford.

John Williamson	-	1826	28 May 1885	Scottish-American painter

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