Thomas Doughty (July 19, 1793 – July 22, 1856) was an American artist associated with the

Hudson River School The Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. The paintings typically depict the Hudson River Valley and the surrounding area, ...

Biography

Born in

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

, Thomas Doughty was the first American artist to work exclusively as a landscapist and was successful both for his skill and the fact that Americans were turning their interest to

landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...

. He was known for his quiet, often atmospheric landscapes of the rivers and mountains of

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, and especially the

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Valley.Oxford Reference, Hudson River School
/ref> He taught himself how to paint while apprenticing for a leather manufacturer. In 1827 he was elected into the

National Academy of Design The National Academy of Design is an honorary association of American artists, founded in New York City in 1825 by Samuel Morse, Asher Durand, Thomas Cole, Martin E. Thompson, Charles Cushing Wright, Ithiel Town, and others "to promote the fin ...

as an Honorary Academician. He worked mostly in Philadelphia, but also lived and worked in

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and

Gallery

File:1839, Doughty, Thomas, View toward the Hudson River.jpg, ''View toward the Hudson River'', 1839,

Princeton University Art Museum The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) is the Princeton University gallery of art, located in Princeton, New Jersey. With a collecting history that began in 1755, the museum was formally established in 1882, and now houses over 113,000 works o ...

File:Thomas Doughty Ruins in a Landscape.jpg, ''Ruins in a Landscape'', 1828 File:Thomas Doughty In the Catskills.jpg, ''In the

Catskills The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York. As a cultural and geographic region, the Catskills are generally defined as those areas cl ...

'', 1836,

Reynolda House Museum of American Art The Reynolda House Museum of American Art displays a premiere collection of American art ranging from the colonial period to the present. Built in 1917 by Katharine Smith Reynolds and her husband R. J. Reynolds, founder of the R. J. Reynolds Toba ...

File:Brooklyn Museum - Landscape after Ruisdael - Thomas Doughty - overall.jpg, ''Landscape after Ruisdael'', ca. 1846,

Brooklyn Museum The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At , the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 1.5 million objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown H ...

File:Thomas Doughty - View of the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia, from the Opposite Side of the Schuylkill River - Google Art Project.jpg, ''View of the Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia, from the Opposite Side of the

Schuylkill River The Schuylkill River ( , ) is a river running northwest to southeast in eastern Pennsylvania. The river was improved by navigations into the Schuylkill Canal, and several of its tributaries drain major parts of Pennsylvania's Coal Region. It fl ...

'', 1824/26,

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Build ...

File:A River Glimpse MET ap95.17.2.jpg, '' A River Glimpse'', 1842–1850, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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An exhibition catalog
available as a full-text PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries {{DEFAULTSORT:Doughty, Thomas 1793 births 1856 deaths 19th-century American painters American male painters Hudson River School painters American landscape painters Schuylkill River Artists from Philadelphia 19th-century American male artists

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