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DURAND, ASHER BROWN (1796-1886)

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 693 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DRO-ECG
DURAND, ASHER BROWN (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.


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