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 | Scottish Landscape 1871 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. |  Robert S. Duncanson made several trips to Scotland, probably inspired by his father's Scottish heritage. He created romantic wilderness views that may have been influenced by the novels and poems of Sir Walter Scott. In this piece the warm colors and rich vegetation make a remote scene appear welcoming, and would have appealed to the sentimental... | GA | Anonymous |
 | Valley Pasture 1857 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | rms. This might represent the promised land of freedom that escaped slaves in the 1850s hoped to reach by swimming across the Ohio River to the free states of the North. | GA | Anonymous |
 | Vesuvius and Pompeii 1870 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | Robert S. Duncanson spent a significant amount of time in Italy, and painted several views of Pompeii. Pompeii's dramatic history and the lure of Mount Vesuvius's still violent potential brought many artists to the area in the nineteenth century. This image shows the remains of an amphitheater, with Vesuvius smoking in the background. Duncanson... | GA | Anonymous |
 | Vulture and Its Prey 1844 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Waterfall on Mont-Morency 1864 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Landscape with Shepherd 1852 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Landscape with Cows Watering in a Stream 1871 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Loch Long 1867 Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, IN | This scene is typical of Hudson River School painting in its inclusion of small figures, misty mountains, sun-dappled shore, and expansive vista. Duncanson produced a series of Scottish landscapes stimulated by his travels and the literature of Sir Walter Scott. | GA | Anonymous |
 | Landscape with Campsite oil on canvas mounted on paperboard Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | GA | Anonymous | |
 | Landscape with Family by Lake 1858 Smithsonian American Art Museum Washington, D.C. | During the late 1850s, Robert S. Duncanson painted romantic views of the Ohio River valley, near his home in Cincinnati. Images like Landscape with Family by Lake showed people enjoying nature in peaceful settings, suggesting the nineteenth-century faith that God created the wilderness for man to enjoy. The setting sun infuses the tree in the... | GA | Anonymous |
- Robert Scott Duncanson
