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Aurora Borealis is an 1865 painting by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church of the aurora borealis and the Arctic expedition of Isaac Israel Hayes. The painting measures 142.3 by 212.2 centimetres (56.0 in × 83.5 in) and is now owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum .
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The Reception, 1873, version in oils, using drawings of Lewis' house in Cairo, which he had left over 20 years before [4]. Lewis was born in London on 14 July 1804. He was the son of Frederick Christian Lewis (1779–1856), an engraver and landscape painter, whose German father had moved to England and changed his name from Ludwig. [5]
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Albany Institute of History and Art, New York West Rock, New Haven: 1849: Oil on canvas: 27 + 1 ⁄ 8 in × 40 + 1 ⁄ 8 in (690 mm × 1,020 mm) New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut [4] Mountain Landscape: 1849: Oil on canvas: 34.6 × 48.5 cm: Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso, Indiana Above the Clouds at Sunrise: 1849: Oil on canvas ...
The final study for the painting. Horseshoe Falls, Niagara, 1856–57, oil on two pieces of paper, 29.2 × 90.5 cm. Olana State Historic Site [1]. Niagara is an oil painting produced in 1857 by the American artist Frederic Edwin Church.
John Lewis Krimmel (May 30, 1786 – July 15, 1821), sometimes called "the American Hogarth," was America's first painter of genre scenes. Born in the Holy Roman Empire , he immigrated to Philadelphia in 1809 and soon became a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts .
The theory of British critic John Ruskin was also an important influence on Church. Ruskin's Modern Painters was a five-volume treatise on art that was, according to American artist Worthington Whittredge, "in every landscape painter's hand" by mid-century. [7]