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Born November 5, 1779 • South Carolina
Died July 9, 1843 (aged 63) • Massachusetts
Notable Works “Moonlit Landscape” • “The Flight of Florimell”
Movement / Style Gothic literature • Romanticism

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Allston, Washington: Moonlit Landscape
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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
American painter
William Morris Hunt.
William Morris Hunt
American painter
Durand, Asher B.: The First Harvest in the Wilderness
Asher B. Durand
American artist
Davies, Arthur B.
Arthur B. Davies
American painter
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter
Runge, Philipp Otto: Red Currant
Philipp Otto Runge
German artist
Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich
German painter
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Théodore Rousseau
French artist
Richard Parkes Bonington: Grand Canal, Venice
Richard Parkes Bonington
British painter
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Philip James de Loutherbourg
artist
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Anton Mauve
Dutch painter
Vedder, Elihu
Elihu Vedder
American artist
William Blake
William Blake
English engraver, artist, and poet
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix
French artist
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Orest Adamovich Kiprensky
Russian artist
Théodore Géricault: The Raft of the Medusa
Théodore Géricault
French painter
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Antoine-Jean Gros
French painter
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Alexandre Decamps
French painter
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Anne-Louis Girodet
French painter

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