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Birth
1845 (Richmond, England)
Death
1911 (Upper Montclair, New Jersey)
Lived/Active
New Jersey/New York
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book illustration, sea-landscape painting, engraving
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Illustrators
Hudson River School Painters
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An illustrator for William Cullen Bryant's book Picturesque America
and a painter associated with the Hudson River School of painting,
Harry Fenn was born in England. He trained as a wood engraver before
becoming a painter. One of his strengths was his ability to
capture highly detailed topographical scenes, and much of his work was
intended for reproduction.
He arrived in the United States in
the mid 1860s purportedly to see Niagara Falls. He stayed for six
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