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ASHER BROWN DURAND (1796-1886)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 693 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ASHER See also:BROWN See also:DURAND (1796-1886)  , See also:American painter and engraver, was See also:born at See also:South See also:Orange, New See also:Jersey, on the 21st of See also:August 1796 . He worked with his See also:father, a See also:watch-maker; was apprenticed in 1812 to an engraver named See also:Peter Maverick; and his first See also:work, the See also:head of an old See also:beggar after See also:Waldo, attracted the See also:attention of the artist See also:Trumbull . See also:Durand established his reputation by his See also:engraving of Trumbull's " See also:Declaration of See also:Independence." After 1835, however, he de-voted himself chiefly to portrait See also:painting . He painted several of the presidents of the See also:United States and many other men of See also:political and social prominence . In 184o he visited See also:Europe, where he studied the work of the old masters; after his return he devoted himself almost entirely to landscape . He died at South Orange on the 17th of See also:September 1886 . He had been one of the founders of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design in 1826, and was its See also:president in 1845-1861 . Durand may be called the father of the See also:Hudson See also:River School . Although there was some-thing hard and unsympathetic about his landscapes, and unnecessary details and trivialities were over-prominent, he was a well-trained craftsman, and his work is marked by sincerity .

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