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Born May 4, 1826 • Hartford • Connecticut
Died April 7, 1900 (aged 73) • New York City • New York
Movement / Style Hudson River school • Romanticism

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View of Cotopaxi, oil on canvas by Frederic Edwin Church, 1857; in The Art Institute of Chicago.
Church, Frederic Edwin: Heart of the Andes
Church, Frederic Edwin: The Parthenon
Figure 9: A cluttered Victorian interior in the exotic Moorish style, designed by the landscape painter Frederick Edwin Church for his home, Olana, at Hudson, New York, 1870-72.
Hudson: Olana
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William Morris Hunt.
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