Victor de Grailly
(1804 - 1889)

French painter Victor de Grailly, working in a Hudson River School landscape style, is said to have lived in the United States from 1840 to 1870, but, according to Peter Falk, "no evidence has been found to confirm this statement".
Most of his paintings of American scenes were based on engravings he saw in France in William Henry Bartlett's book, American Scenery, London, 1840.  De Grailly studied in France with neo-classical landscape painter Victor Bertin, whose influence remained with De Grailly, although a more romantic feeling developed in his later work.

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Niagara Falls
ca. 1850
Oil on Canvas
43,2 x 59,7
Private Collection