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|  George Lafayette Clough was born September 18, 1824, in Auburn, New York, and was
that city's leading landscapist and, known as a Hudson River School painter, became Auburn's most noted resident painter of the
mid-century. His mother was widowed shortly after his birth, and
he was raised without paternal influence. He had little formal
education and was employed by the age of ten. By age fifteen he
had taken up painting, and his first and informal art influence came
from the portraitist, Randall Palmer.
In 1844 Clough opened
his own studio in Auburn. About that time Charles Loring Elliott
came to Auburn to paint a portrait of William Henry Seward, a local
statesman, and chose Clough's studio for that purpose. Elliott
became Clough's teacher, and in 1847, he began formal study for several
months in Elliott's New York City studio. He returned to Auburn
from that experience a competent professional portraitist. Two of
his portraits were exhibited at the National Academy of Design the
following year. He married and briefly shared a studio in Auburn
with Joseph Meeker.
In the early 1850's, he traveled to France,
Holland, Italy, and Germany to study. While in each location, Clough
would study the local painting traditions and copy some of their works,
a common custom of American artists. Upon return to the United States,
his efforts concentrated primarily on landscapes. His favorite locales
included the Adirondacks, and the woodland areas of upper New York
State, Pennsylvania, New England, and Eastern Ohio.
When he
moved to Cleveland about 1862, Clough began painting urban views.
Spending most of the 1880's in the New York City area, he became
involved in the Brooklyn Art Association.
He returned to his hometown of Auburn several years before his death.
Source:
Michael David Zellman, 300 Years of American Art, p. 208
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notable landscape painter of the 19th Century, George Lafayette Clough
was born in Auburn, New York. He was basically a self-taught
painter, but did receive a fair amount of training from Charles Loring
Elliott in Auburn and New York.
In the 1850's he traveled to Europe to study and spent time in Italy,
Holland, and Germany. Upon his return he began to concentrate on
pastoral scenes, which became primary subject, usually done around
Auburn. He was a member of the Brooklyn Brush and Palette Club
and exhibited at the National Academy, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy,
Brooklyn Art Association, Boston Art Club, The Cosmopolitan Art
Association and others.
Source:
Covington Gallery
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Hudson River School Painters
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