ASHER

See also:

• BROWN
• BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
• BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
• BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
• BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
• BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
• BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
• BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
• BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
• BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
• BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
• BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
• BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
• BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
• BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
• BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
• BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
• BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
• BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
• BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
• BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
• BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
• BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)

BROWN

See also:

• ASHER BROWN DURAND (1796-1886)
• DURAND, GUILLAUME (GUILLELMUS DURANDUS)
• DURAND, GUILLAUME (d. 1334)

DURAND (1796-1886)  , American painter and engraver, was born at South Orange, New Jersey, on the 21st of August 1796 . He worked with his father, a watch-maker; was apprenticed in 1812 to an engraver named Peter Maverick; and his first work, the head of an old beggar after Waldo, attracted the attention of the artist Trumbull . Durand established his reputation by his engraving of Trumbull's " Declaration of Independence." After 1835, however, he de-voted himself chiefly to portrait painting . He painted several of the presidents of the United States and many other men of political and social prominence . In 184o he visited 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 September 1886 . He had been one of the founders of the National Academy of Design in 1826, and was its president in 1845-1861 . Durand may be called the father of the Hudson 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 .