He returned each winter to paint and to sell his work.īetween 18, Church traveled in South America, financed by businessman Cyrus West Field, who wished to use Church's paintings to lure investors to his South American ventures. From the spring to autumn each year Church would travel, often by foot, sketching. Soon after, he sold his first major work to Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum.Ĭhurch settled in New York where he taught his first pupil, William James Stillman. In May 1848, Church was elected as the youngest Associate of the National Academy of Design and was promoted to Academician the following year. At eighteen years of age, Church became the pupil of Thomas Cole in Catskill, New York after Daniel Wadsworth, a family neighbor and founder of the Wadsworth Atheneum, intoduced the two. The wealth of Church's father allowed him to pursue his interest in art from a very early age.
While committed to the natural sciences, he was "always concerned with including a spiritual dimension in his works". He was a central figure in the Hudson River School of American landscape painters. Image is Copyrighted and Property of its respective ownerĪbout the ArtistFrederic Edwin Church (– April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut.
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