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Born September 5, 1774 • Greifswald • Germany
Died May 7, 1840 (aged 65) • Dresden • Germany
Notable Works “The Abbey in the Oak Wood” • “The Polar Sea” • “Monk by the Sea” • “The Cross in the Mountains” • “Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog”
Movement / Style Romanticism

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Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich: Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon
Caspar David Friedrich: Monk by the Sea
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Claude Lorrain: Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father
Claude Lorrain
French artist
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix
French artist
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ThĂŠodore Rousseau
French artist
Allston, Washington: Moonlit Landscape
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View of Cotopaxi, oil on canvas by Frederic Edwin Church, 1857; in The Art Institute of Chicago.
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Worthington Whittredge: The Trout Pool
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William Morris Hunt.
William Morris Hunt
American painter
Durand, Asher B.: The First Harvest in the Wilderness
Asher B. Durand
American artist
Richard Parkes Bonington: Grand Canal, Venice
Richard Parkes Bonington
British painter
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Philip James de Loutherbourg
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Davies, Arthur B.
Arthur B. Davies
American painter
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Anton Mauve
Dutch painter
Macbeth and Banquo encounter the Three Witches, illustration by John Gilbert for an edition of Shakespeare's works, 1858–60.
Sir John Gilbert
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“Battle of Alexander at Issus,” detail of an oil painting on panel by Albrecht Altdorfer, 1529; in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich
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