PreviewDescriptionArtist
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Charles Loring Elliott

ca. 1842-1846
oil on canvas
23 3/4 x 19 11/16 in. (60.4 x 50 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Elliott, Charles Loring 
Portrait of a Woman

by Robert Feke

1748
oil on canvas
49 3/8 x 39 9/16 in. (125.4 x 100.5 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Feke, Robert 
View of Springfield on the Connecticut River

by Alvan Fisher

1819
Oil on canvas
31 5/8 x 43 11/16 in. (80.4 x 111 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Fisher, Alvannotes
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
oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. (73 x 92.1 cm) Frame: 33 1/2 x 41 1/8 x 2 3/4 in. (85.1 x 104.5 x 7 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Frieseke, Frederick Carl 
New England Homestead

by Samuel Lancaster Gerry

1839
oil on canvas
23 3/4 x 36 1/8 in. (60.4 x 91.7 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Gerry, Samuel Lancaster 
Trees and Meadow

by Robert Swain Gifford

ca. 1885
oil on canvas
11 15/16 x 23 7/8 in. (30.3 x 60.6 cm) Frame: 23 3/4 x 35 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (60.3 x 90.6 x 11.4 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Gifford, Robert Swain 
Seconnet Rock, New Bedford, Massachusetts

by Robert Swain Gifford

ca. 1865
oil on canvas
14 3/16 x 22 3/16 in. (36 x 56.3 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Gifford, Robert Swain 
The Coast of New England

by Robert Swain Gifford

1880
oil on canvas
36 x 60 3/16 in. (91.4 x 152.8 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Gifford, Robert Swain 
Derwentwater

by Sanford Robinson Gifford

1856
oil on canvas
17 5/8 x 25 1/2 in. (44.8 x 64.8 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Gifford, Sanford Robinsonnotes
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
oil on canvas
10 3/16 x 8 11/16 in. (25.9 x 22 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

Gifford, Sanford Robinson 
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