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Asher Brown Durand
Born 21 August 1796, Jefferson Village (now Maplewood), Springfield Township, New Jersey
Died 17 September 1886, Maplewood, New Jersey
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Durand was apprenticed as a teenager to an engraver in Newark, eventually becoming his former master's business partner in a New York firm. However, in 1831, despite his growing reputation as an engraver, Durand decided to turn to oil painting. He worked initially as a portrait painter, but by 1837 he began to paint landscapes, making sketches and studies on trips to the Adirondack, Catskill and White Mountains, which were transformed into finished paintings back in his New York studio. By 1848, after the death of Thomas Cole, Durand was acknowledged as America's foremost landscape painter. He devoted himself almost exclusively to landscape painting in his later years, until his retirement in 1878.
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