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SANDFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD (1823–188o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 5 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SANDFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD (1823–188o)  ,
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American landscape painter, was born at
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Greenfield, New York, on the loth of
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July 1823 . He studied (1842–1845) at Brown University, then went to New York, and entered the
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art
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schools of the
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National Academy of Design, of which organization he was elected an associate in 1851, and an academician in 1854 . Subsequently be studied in Paris and Rome . He was one of the best known of the Hudson
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River school
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group, though it was at Lake George that he found most of his themes . In his day he enjoyed an enormous popularity, and his canvases are in many well-known American collections . He died in New York City on the 29th of August 1880 .

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