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

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