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2. List of Hudson River School artists - Wikipedia

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   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. He completed more than 130 paintings, including several works in black and ...

3. J. M. W. Turner - Wikipedia

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   He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. [ 2 ] Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden , London, to a modest lower-middle-class family and retained his lower-class accent, while assiduously avoiding the ...

4. William Heaton Cooper - Wikipedia

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   William Heaton Cooper RA (6 October 1903–1995) was an English impressionistic landscape artist who worked predominantly in watercolours, most famous for his paintings of the Lake District. [1] Since the 1950s, he has become known as one of the most celebrated British landscape artists of the 20th century.

5. Landscape painting - Wikipedia

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   Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...

6. List of paintings by Thomas Cole - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Cole was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. [1] [2] Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings.

7. John Constable - Wikipedia

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   John Constable RA (/ ˈ k ʌ n s t ə b əl, ˈ k ɒ n-/; [1] 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting [2] with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of ...