
Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger (1779—1853) was an Austrian painter who specialised in landscape paintings. He was mostly self-taught. At the age of 36 he was elected to the...

Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger (1779—1853) was an Austrian painter who specialised in landscape paintings. He was mostly self-taught. At the age of 36 he was elected to the...

In the academic hierarchy of late 18th century art, landscape painting was considered inferior in comparison to history, portrait and genre painting. This perception...

Frederick Judd Waugh (1861—1940) was an American marine painter. He left for Paris, where he entered the Académie Julian and studied under Adolphe William Bougereau and...

Albert Bierstadt's (1830–1902) paintings of the untamed American West are some of the most significant historical and artistic accomplishments of the 19th century. The...

While this work has been historically identified as Lake George, the composition more closely resembles Cropsey's paintings of Greenwood Lake in Orange County, New York....

“The New England Coast” belongs to an important subset of Francis Augustus Silva's (1835—1886) coastal landscapes in which he manipulates the landscape to achieve...

Thomas Moran (1837—1926) is perhaps best known for his paintings of the American West, but at the age of forty nine he became captivated by the Italian city of Venice,...

Francis Augustus Silva (1835—1886), who lived in Brooklyn and maintained a studio in Manhattan, made frequent trips up the Hudson River in the 1870s to gather...

John Martin 1789—1854) was largely a self-taught artist, who achieved through his vivid imagination and bold, theatrical style an epitome of the romantic sublime in...

Painted circa 1873, “October on the Hudson” is one of Francis Augustus Silva’s (1835—1886) most successful forays in the luminist idiom, characterised by an emphasis on...

The group of paintings called "The Last Summer's Work," left behind in John Frederick Kensett's (1816—1872) summer studio at Darien, Connecticut, at his death in...