In 1844, aged 18, Church became the pupil of landscape artist Thomas Cole in Catskill, New York after Daniel Wadsworth, a family neighbor and founder of the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Connecticut, introduced the two. The family's wealth allowed Frederic to pursue his interest in art from a very early age. His mother's brother was Adrian Janes, who owned an iron foundry that constructed the U.S. His father was successful in business as a silversmith and jeweler and was a director at several financial firms.
Frederic had two sisters and no surviving brothers. In his prime, he was one of the most famous painters in the United States.įrederic Edwin Church was a direct descendant of Richard Church, a Puritan pioneer from England who accompanied Thomas Hooker on the original journey through the wilderness from Massachusetts to what would become Hartford, Connecticut. He debuted some of his major works in single-painting exhibitions to a paying and often enthralled audience in New York City. Church's paintings put an emphasis on realistic detail, dramatic light, and panoramic views.
He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters, best known for painting large landscapes, often depicting mountains, waterfalls, and sunsets. Frederic Edwin Church (– April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut.
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