Prominent Figures: List of Artists

The following is a partial list of major and minor artists of the Hudson River School of landscape painting. This genre was popularized by well over 100 artists during a period that lasted from 1825 through approximately 1890. Significant, known relationships with Thomas Cole or Cedar Grove are shown in bold.

Henry Ary c. 1807 – 1852
Alfred Fitch Bellows 1829 – 1883
Albert Bierstadt 1830 – 1902
DeWitt Clinton Boutelle 1820 – 1884
James Renwick Brevoort 1832 – 1918
Alfred Thompson Bricher 1837 – 1908
Albert D’Orient Browere 1814 – 1887
William Mason Brown 1828 – 1898
John Hermann Carmiencke 1810 – 1867
John William Casilear 1811 – 1893
Benjamin Champney 1817 – 1907
Charles H. Chapin 1830 – 1898

Frederic Edwin Church
Studied two years under Cole at Cedar Grove; later hired Theodore Cole to work at Olana
1826 – 1900
Charles Codman

Thomas Cole

1800 – 1842

1801-1848

Samuel Colman, Jr. 1832 – 1920
Jasper Francis Cropsey 1823 – 1900
Thomas Doughty 1793 – 1856
Robert S. Duncanson 1821 – 1872

Asher B. Durand
Close friend and established engraver; Cole encouraged him to become a painter
1796 – 1886
Alvan Fisher 1792 – 1863
Samuel Lancaster Gerry 1812 – 1891
Sanford Robinson Gifford 1823 – 1880
Regis Francis Gignoux 1816 – 1882
Eliza Greatorex 1820 – 1897
James McDougal Hart 1828 – 1901
William McDougal Hart 1823 – 1894
Martin Johnson Heade 1819 – 1904
J. Antonio Hekking 1830 – c.1903
George Hetzel 1826 – 1899
James Hope c.1819 – 1892
Richard William Hubbard 1816 – 1888
Daniel Huntington 1816 – 1891
George Inness 1825 – 1894
David Johnson 1827 – 1908
John Frederick Kensett 1816 – 1872
Charles W. Knapp 1823 – 1900
Fitz Hugh Lane 1804 – 1865
Homer Dodge Martin 1836 – 1897
Jervis McEntee 1828 – 1890
Louis Remy Mignot 1831 – 1870

Charles Herbert Moore
Painted scenes of Cedar Grove and rented studio space at Cedar Grove after Cole’s death
1840 – 1930
Thomas Moran 1837 – 1926
John Adams Parker 1827 – c.1905
Arthur Parton 1842 – 1914

Henry Cheever Pratt
Travelled with Cole in Maine New Hampshire
1803 – 1880
William Trost Richards 1833 – 1905
Thomas P. Rossiter 1818 – 1871
Aaron Draper Shattuck 1832 – 1928
George Henry Smillie 1840 – 1921
James D. Smillie 1833 – 1909
William T. R. Smith 1812 – 1896
William Louis Sonntag 1822 – 1899

Benjamin Stone
Rented studio space at Cedar Grove after Cole’s death
1829 – 1906
Paul Weber 1823 – 1916
T. Worthington Whittredge 1820 – 1910
John Williamson 1816 – 1885
Alexander H. Wyant 1836 – 1892
rootProminent Figures: List of Artists