Thomas Cole
(1801 - 1848)

Thomas Cole was an English-born American artist and the founder of the Hudson River School art movement. Cole is widely regarded as the first significant American landscape painter. He was known for his romantic landscape and history paintings. Influenced by European painters, but with a strong American sensibility, he was prolific throughout his career and worked primarily with oil on canvas. His paintings are typically allegoric and often depict small figures or structures set against moody and evocative natural landscapes. They are usually escapist, framing the New World as a natural eden contrasting with the smog-filled cityscapes of Industrial Revolution-era Britain, in which he grew up. His works, often seen as conservative, criticize the contemporary trends of industrialism, urbanism, and westward expansion.

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

Home in the Woods
1957
Oil on canvas
63,3 x 57,7 cm
Reynolda House Museum of American Art
https://reynoldahouse.emuseum.com/objects/49/home-in-the-woods

Frederic Edwin Church
(1826 - 1900)

Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 – April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets. Church's paintings put an emphasis on realistic detail, dramatic light, and panoramic views. He debuted some of his major works in single-painting exhibitions to a paying and often enthralled audience in New York City. In his prime, he was one of the most famous painters in the United States.

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

The Heart of the Andes

1859

Oil on canvas

168 x 302 cm

Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10481

Thomas Chambers
(1808 - 1869)
 

Thomas Chambers was an English-born painter who spent most of his life in the United States. He is generally classified as a Primitivist, but has also been called the "First American Modern". Most of his paintings were unsigned, which delayed his recognition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Chambers_(painter)

The_Connecticut_Valley
mid 19th century
Oil on Canvas
45.7 cm (17.9 in); width: 61 cm (24 in)
National Gallery of Art
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.43630.html

John William Casilear

(1811 - 1893)

 

John William Casilear was an American landscape artist belonging to the Hudson River School.

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

 

Lake George

1857

Oil on canvas

51,6 x 75,9 cm

The MET

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/18447

Johann Hermann Carmiencke
(1810 - 1867)
 

Johann Hermann Carmiencke or John Hermann Carmiencke (born at Hamburg in 1810; died at Brooklyn, New York on 15 June 1867) was a landscape painter and etcher. He followed in the footsteps of painters such as Thomas Cole and Jasper Francis Cropsey, who were inspired by the wilderness landscape along the Hudson River in New York. He spent many summers sketching and painting along the river and in the Catskills and Adirondacks, then created finished paintings in his studio.

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

Hudson River at Cold Spring
1861
Oil on canvas
30.7 x 47.3 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/hudson-river-cold-spring-3783

William Mason Brown

(1828 - 1898)
 

William Mason Brown (1828–1898) was an American artist. Born in Troy, New York. He began his career as a portraitist, studying under Abel Buell Moore.
One of the better known of the Hudson River School’s second generation, he was renowned for romantic landscapes and still lifes.

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

 

Lake Losepe
Date unknown
Oil on canvas
59.1 x 76.8 cm
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, N.Y.

 <b>George Loring Brown</b>
(1802 - 1873)

<i>George Loring Brown (February 2, 1814 – June 25, 1889) was an American landscape painter. He was born in Boston and first studied wood engraving under Alonzo Hartwell and worked as an illustrator. He studied painting with Washington Allston, but soon went to Europe, residing principally in Italy for years. Brown spent much of his life abroad, and the motives of his pictures are usually Italian, and there is nothing specifically American about them either in treatment or sentiment. Among the best are Sunset in Genoa (1875), Doges' Palace and Grand Canal, Bay of Naples, Niagara Falls in Moonlight. The Bay of New York (1869) was acquired by King Edward VII when visiting America as Prince of Wales. </I>

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

 

Monte Pellegrino at Palermo, Italy
1856
Oil on canvas
48,8 x 81,2 cm
Museum of Fine Arts Boston