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Charles Baker ( New York City – active 1839 – 1888) was a 19th-century
Quest Royal Fine Art. Retrieved on 2012-05-21. He was also active as a saddler,Charles Baker (c. 1839 - after 1888)
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Charles Baker worked in New York at the beginning of the Hudson River School movement. He created idyllic landscape paintings of an early American wilderness and particularly enjoyed painting the scenic vistas of the White Mountains in New Hampshire. He was deeply influenced by the dramatic work of Thomas Cole and painted in a romantic style clearly tied to Cole's sublime aesthetic.
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painter
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.Charles Baker (Active 1839–1888)Quest Royal Fine Art. Retrieved on 2012-05-21. He was also active as a saddler,
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, and silver plate artisan. Baker exhibited at the National Academy from 1839 to 1873 and at the American Art-Union
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in 1847. He was one of the founders of the Art League of New York.AskArt. Retrieved on 2012-05-21.
Painting
Charles Baker worked in New York at the beginning of the Hudson River School movement. He created idyllic landscape paintings of an early American wilderness and particularly enjoyed painting the scenic vistas of the White Mountains in New Hampshire. He was deeply influenced by the dramatic work of Thomas Cole and painted in a romantic style clearly tied to Cole's sublime aesthetic. Art historian
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s have suggested that he went so far as to produce copies of several of Cole's paintings.
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19th-century American painters American male painters American landscape painters Hudson River School painters 1839 births 1888 deaths Painters from New York (state) 19th-century American male artists {{US-painter-1830s-stub