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Most of early American art (from the late 18th century through the early 19th century) consists of history painting and especially portraits. As in Colonial America, many of the painters who specialized in portraits were essentially self-taught; notable among them are Joseph Badger, John Brewster Jr., and William Jennys.
The name appeared in print in 1879, it was initially used during the 1870s disparagingly, as the style had gone out of favor after the plein-air Barbizon School had come into vogue among American patrons and collectors. [1] Hudson River School paintings reflect three themes of America in the 19th century: discovery, exploration, and settlement. [3]
العربية; Aragonés; Azərbaycanca; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Bosanski; Català; Čeština; Cymraeg; Ελληνικά; Español; Esperanto
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century African-American painters and Category:19th-century Native American painters and Category:19th-century American women painters The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
In nineteenth century, the western American was considered as a symbol of freedom and unknown, encouraging artists to give support to the movement in the 19th century. [10] After the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, artists and explorers were inspired by the changes to enter the westward which provided a stage for the young to challenge their talent.
The term luminism was introduced by mid-20th-century art historians to describe a 19th-century American style of painting that developed as an offshoot of the Hudson River School. The historian John I. H. Baur identified the style in the late 1940s, calling it "luminism" in a 1954 article. [ 5 ]
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The American Pre-Raphaelites was a movement of landscape painters in the United States during the mid-19th century. It was named for its connection to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and for the influence of John Ruskin on its members.