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famous painters in usa
Benjamin West was first American painter from American art painter's school. He was born to 1738 in Pennsylvania and he started painting since was a teenager. He studied arts and history of painting to Italy. He moved to London from 1963, where he started his painter career. He focuses all works on history, religion and romanticism. One of his famous paintings was "The Death of General Wolfe". He was the founder of Royal Academy of Art from London. He has the great privilege to paint portraits of royal family of England in 1778. He remains in history like first historical painter of America and the "Father of American Painting". John Singleton Copley was another famous American painter. He was born to 1738 in Boston, in an immigrant's family.
He became the best American portrait painter from his generation. His famous paintings were "Colonel Epes Sargent" and "Brook Watson and the Shark". He focused his painting on portraits and narrative history painting. Gilbert Stuart was the best American portraitist from 18th century. He was the father of America's fine art. His career was focus on portraits. He created portraits of the first six Presidents of United States and more than 1000 other portraits. His portraits became so famous that people exposed to National Museum of art. Thomas Cole was first American landscape painter of American school of arts. He started his career focusing on nature and wilderness. After few years, he moved his works from landscape to historical themes. He was member of first American school of landscape painting. One of his famous works was "Distant View of Niagara Falls".
Frederic Edwin Church was one of the best American landscape painters. He was born in Connecticut to 1826 and he was student of Thomas Cole. His works was focus on foreign and nature landscapes. He travelled to tropical forests, waterfalls, volcanoes and icebergs. He travelled by foot to different States from America to find places and make great landscapes. One of his famous works was "The Hearth of the Andes". Winslow Homer was first American seascape painter that started to paint in watercolor and oil. His works was focus on marine life, nature, oceans, army people and hunters. He was on war front like an artist, for a magazine from United States. During the war, he was writer and painter that sent home painting with soldiers and stories. From 1873, he started to use watercolor on his paintings. He remains famous on history for seascapes, watercolor paintings and war scene paintings.