Frederic Edwin Church

Name

Frederic Edwin Church

Metropolitan Museum information page

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First Name

Frederick

Additional Names

Edwin

Last Name

Church

Born

1826

Died

1900

Profession

Landscape Painter

Note

Studied with Thomas Cole
Noted positively by William Burleigh in ChOak New Series 1, 29, 1 July 23, 1846, in an article on "Artists" with a Hartford connection

"Mr. Church – Mr. C. is a whilom pupil of Thomas Cole, and report avers, exceeding clever in the execution of landscapes. We, however, go farther than this, and affirm him to be an artist of more than clever abilities, and one too of no mean pretensions. He is still young, and in art ‘one is never too old to learn.’ It struck us that in one or two of his pictures, (the only ones we ever saw,) that there was a hardness developed, which perhaps himself was the first to notice. Some may perhaps smile at the idea of ‘hardness’ in a landscape; but it is nevertheless so; the peculiarity we speak of was in the sky. Mr. C. pays great attention to ‘tone,’ in his pictures; the colouring in general very good, though portions exhibit a slight ‘’chalky’ appearance, which is a fault that study and experience will rectify. He has not, we should judge, studied nature to so good an advantage as has Mr. Isham. There is a quiet look of nature in Mr. I’s landscapes, that we have never seen in those of Mr. C., though they always convey to the eye a very pleasing effect.
Perhaps we shall gain no credit by the prophecy; but he will one day be an artist, of whom Hartford may justly be proud." - Charter Oak, New Series, 1:29:1 July 23, 1846

Note on painting. This may well be one of the works seen by William Henry Burleigh, as it is known to have been on display in Hartford the year it was painted, 1846, which is when the article referenced above was published.
By Frederic Edwin Church - Public Domain

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Wadsworth Athenaeum link to painting

Associated Causes

Abolition