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

1800 – 1842
Samuel Colman, Jr.  
1832 – 1920
Jasper Francis Cropsey  
1823 – 1900
Thomas Doughty
1793 – 1856
Robert Scott 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





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