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![]() | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Charles Loring Elliott ca. 1842-1846 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Elliott, Charles Loring | |
![]() | Portrait of a Woman by Robert Feke 1748 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Feke, Robert | |
![]() | View of Springfield on the Connecticut River by Alvan Fisher 1819 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Fisher, Alvan | ![]() Alvan Fisher’s bucolic view of Springfield, Massachusetts, from across the Connecticut River typifies the kind of landscapes that were popular in the period. It describes a specific locale—note the steepled First Church on the far bank—using the well-known artistic vocabulary of the “Claudian” landscape. This compositional format, based on... |
![]() | The Artist's Daughter by Frederick Carl Frieseke 1927 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Frieseke, Frederick Carl | |
![]() | New England Homestead by Samuel Lancaster Gerry 1839 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Gerry, Samuel Lancaster | |
![]() | Trees and Meadow by Robert Swain Gifford ca. 1885 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Gifford, Robert Swain | |
![]() | Seconnet Rock, New Bedford, Massachusetts by Robert Swain Gifford ca. 1865 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Gifford, Robert Swain | |
![]() | The Coast of New England by Robert Swain Gifford 1880 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Gifford, Robert Swain | |
![]() | Derwentwater by Sanford Robinson Gifford 1856 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Gifford, Sanford Robinson | ![]() Writing in 1858, a critic for the Crayon praised Gifford’s landscape paintings—including this vista of England’s popular Lake District—as follows: “His pictures are generally chaste, and unpretending in color, and are remarkable for a luminous atmosphere. Their poetic quality is recognizable in a fine sense of the picturesque, a feeling of... |
![]() | Study for a Self-Portrait by Sanford Robinson Gifford ca. 1848 Brooklyn Museum New York, NY | Gifford, Sanford Robinson |
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