Asher Brown Durand
(1796 - 1886)

Asher Brown Durand was an American painter of the Hudson River School.
He is remembered particularly for his detailed portrayals of trees, rocks, and foliage. He was an advocate for drawing directly from nature with as much realism as possible. Durand wrote, "Let [the artist] scrupulously accept whatever [nature] presents him until he shall, in a degree, have become intimate with her infinity...never let him profane her sacredness by a willful departure from truth."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asher_Brown_Durand

Landscape—Scene from "Thanatopsis"
Inspired by William Cullen Bryant's poem "Thanatopsis" (Greek for "view of death")

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50465/thanatopsis
1850
Oil on Canvas
100.3 x 154.9  cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10793