Associate member of the National Academy of Design Landscape painter. Born April 23, 1819, at Oxford (N.H.), he became a lawyer but later took up painting professionally. After study in NYC with Jasper Cropsey in 1848 and abroad in 1853, he married and settled at Hartford (Conn.). His renderings of the White Mountains in New Hampshire were his more important studys. He died at Peekskill (N.Y.) on September 20, 1871. He was an Associate of the National Academy.
Listed:
French, Art and Artists in Connecticut, 106
Swan, BA
Rutledge, PA
NYBD, 1857
Cowdrey, NAD.
Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton
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