See also: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: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
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
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
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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
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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
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Durand may be called the father of the See also:Hudson See also:River School
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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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