Henry Augustus Ferguson's paintings of tropical vegetation first earned him his artistic reputation. He would later sell City of Santiago for $10,000., an extremely sizable amount of money in the late 19th century.
Born
in 1845 in Glens Falls, New York, Ferguson was a landscape painter and
highy energetic world traveler, both in years spent and distances
covered, exploring exotic motifs for his paintings. Europe,
Mexico, South America, Egypt, were some of his destin (showing 500 of 2222 characters). |
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Hudson River School Painters
Painted in Latin America
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