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Also Known As Asher Brown Durand
Born August 21, 1796 • New Jersey
Died September 17, 1886 (aged 90) • New Jersey
Movement / Style Hudson River school • Romanticism • Bread and Cheese Club

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Durand, Asher B.: The First Harvest in the Wilderness
Durand, Asher B.: Kindred Spirits
U.S. Pres. Andrew Jackson
Portrait of President James Madison, painted by Asher B. Durand in 1833, showing Madison in formal attire with a white cravat against a dark background.
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Davies, Arthur B.
Arthur B. Davies
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Graham Sutherland.
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Henry Inman
American painter
William Morris Hunt.
William Morris Hunt
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View of Cotopaxi, oil on canvas by Frederic Edwin Church, 1857; in The Art Institute of Chicago.
Frederic Edwin Church
American painter
Worthington Whittredge: The Trout Pool
Worthington Whittredge
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Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Francisco Goya: Self-portrait
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Joan Miró
Joan Miró
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Georges Rouault
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Jacques Villon
French painter
Baldung, Hans: Three Kings Altarpiece
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William Blake
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Théodore Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa
Théodore Géricault
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Runge, Philipp Otto: Red Currant
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James McNeill Whistler
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