Lucian Freud
(1922 - 2011)

 

Lucian Michael Freud OM CH was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. Freud got his first name "Lucian" from his mother in memory of the ancient writer Lucian of Samosata. His family moved to England in 1933, when he was 10 years old, to escape the rise of Nazism. He became a British naturalized citizen in 1939. From 1942 to 1943 he attended Goldsmiths' College, London. He served at sea with the British Merchant Navy during the Second World War.

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

Double Portrait
1985-86
Oil on canvas

89 cm x 79 cm
Private Collection

John Frederick Kensett
(1816 - 1872)

John Frederick Kensett was an American landscape painter and engraver born in Cheshire, Connecticut. He was a member of the second generation of the Hudson River School of artists. Kensett's signature works are landscape paintings of New England and New York State, whose clear light and serene surfaces celebrate transcendental qualities of nature, and are associated with Luminism. Kensett's early work owed much to the influence of Thomas Cole, but was from the outset distinguished by a preference for cooler colors and an interest in less dramatic topography, favoring restraint in both palette and composition. The work of Kensett's maturity features tranquil scenery depicted with a spare geometry, culminating in series of paintings in which coastal promontories are balanced against glass-smooth water. He was a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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

Bash-Bish Falls, Massachusetts
1855
Oil on canvas
75.88 x 61.28 cm
Museum of Fine Arts Boston

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/33184/bashbish-falls-massachusetts

Jacob Philipp Hackert
(1737 - 1807)

Jacob Philipp Hacker was a landscape painter from Brandenburg, who did most of his work in Italy. 

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

The Maecenas Villa and Waterfalls in Tivoli
1783
Oil on canvas
121,5x169 cm
Hermitage Museum
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/01.+Paintings/38614

Louisa Davis Minot
(1787 - 1858)

Louisa Davis Minot was born 1787 in Portland, Cumberland, Massachusetts.

The life story of Louisa Davis Minot is one that is still shrouded in some form of mystery. For example, we still are unsure how Minot acquired her artistic training. What we do know is that the exquisite attention to detail in the Niagara Falls paintings suggest that they are not her first nor only works. Beyond the sheer artistic talent of the canvases themselves, Louisa Minot was impressive for taking on a subject that truly captured the realistic intensity of emotions of Niagara Falls.
Although the beginnings of the Hudson River School are usually traced back to the fall of 1825, when Durand, John Trumbull and others came across a Thomas Cole landscape in New York, signs indicate that there were others before Cole’s time. Seven years prior to Durand and company’s discovery, Louisa Davis Minot painted a pair of stunning Niagara Falls canvases. In fact, these two works of art were the only known paintings ascribed to her name.

http://staging.davesfiction.com/wam-featured-artist-week-louisa-davis-minot/
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Davis-26573

Niagara Falls
Oil on linen
1818
76,2 × 103,2 cm
New-York Historical Society
https://emuseum.nyhistory.org/objects/44071/niagara-falls

Paul Weber
(1823 - 1916)

Gottlieb Daniel Paul Weber was a German artist. Weber is known for his ethereal and timeless landscape paintings of early northeast America. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1848 and though he returned to Germany around 1860 his influence on American landscape painting was still felt for years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weber_(artist)

Angler an einem Wasserfall im Gebirge (angler at a waterfall in the mountains)
1887
Oil on canvas
43,5 × 36 cm
Private collection

 Edmund Marriner Gill
(1820 - 1894)

Edmund Marriner Gill was an English landscape painter favouring waterfalls. He was the son of portrait painter Edmund Ward Gill (1794–1854) and brother to painters William Ward Gill (1823–1894) and George Reynolds Gill (1827–1904).

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

The Waterfall
Oil on canvas
1795
108,2 × 78,7 cm
Kirklees Museums and Galleries, UK

 Thomas Moran
(1837 - 1926)
 

Thomas Moran was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist. He was a younger brother of the noted marine artist Edward Moran, with whom he shared a studio. A talented illustrator and exquisite colorist, Thomas Moran was hired as an illustrator at Scribner's Monthly. During the late 1860s, he was appointed the chief illustrator for the magazine, a position that helped him launch his career as one of the premier painters of the American landscape, in particular, the American West.

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

Children Of The Mountain
Oil on canvas
1866-1867
62 × 52 cm
American Museum of Western Art in Denver