A River Glimpse
A native of Philadelphia, Doughty represents a link between the eighteenth-century pastoral style of landscape painting first imported from England and the passionate language of the Sublime introduced later by Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School. Doughty occasionally attempted to emulate the style of his more famous successor, as in the gnarled expressiveness of the largest tree in this picture, but he could never forsake the modesty of arrangement and touch that distilled, even from a specific site, a “river glimpse.”
Artwork Details
- Title: A River Glimpse
- Artist: Thomas Doughty (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1793–1856 New York)
- Date: ca. 1843–50
- Culture: American
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 30 1/4 in. × 25 in. (76.8 × 63.5 cm)
Framed: 39 1/8 × 34 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (99.3 × 87 × 7 cm) - Credit Line: Gift of Samuel P. Avery, 1895
- Object Number: 95.17.2
- Curatorial Department: The American Wing
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1800–1808
Thomas Doughty
1830–35
Thomas Doughty
ca. 1853–56
Thomas Doughty
1840
Cecilia Beaux
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