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Birth
1796 (Jefferson Village, New Jersey)
Death
1886 (Jefferson Village, New Jersey)
Lived/Active
New York/New Jersey
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engraving, landscape, portrait, and genre-history painting
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Hudson River School Painters
San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exhibition 1915
Paris Pre 1900
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Known as the "father of American landscape painting", Asher Durand was
the major exponent of the Hudson River School style of painting.
However, he did not take up painting with any seriousness until he was
age forty. His early career was engraving, and in 1823, he earned
much distinction for his engraving of John Trumbull's 1787 painting, The Declaration of Independence.
Durand
was born in Jefferson Village, now Maplewood, New Jersey to a family of
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