American artist .
1821-1872
A self-taught mulatto artist and a landscape painter of the Hudson River school tradition, Duncanson was the first Afro-American artist to receive international recognition. Born into a family of painters and handymen, Duncanson first worked as a house-painter and glazier in Monroe, MI. By 1841 he was in Cincinnati, OH, where he learnt to paint by executing portraits and copying prints. Throughout the 1840s he travelled as an itinerant artist between Cincinnati, Monroe and Detroit. Related Paintings of Robert S.Duncanson :. | The Land of the Lotus Eaters | Ellens Isle | Recollections of Italy | Recollections of Italy | Little Miami River | Related Artists:
Henry P.MooreAmerican artist 19 century
Bourdon, SebastienFrench, 1616-1671.French painter. Bourdon was active in Rome (1634 C37), in Sweden (1652 C54) as Queen Christina's court portrait painter, and in Paris; he also worked in his native Montpellier, where he painted The Fall of Simon Magus for the cathedral. The Finding of Moses is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
felix mendelssohnPeriod: Romantic (1820-1869)
Country: Germany
Born: February 03, 1809 in Hamburg, Germany
Died: November 04, 1847 in Leipzig, Germany