The American Asher Brown Durand was a brilliant engraver with a late discovered passion for painting. The artist, who was born in 1796 in New Jersey in the United States, came from a French Huguenot family. As a young man, Durand trained with his father John Durand. His father was a watchmaker. Later, the 17-year-old switched to the engraver Peter Maverick, who taught him the fine arts of copperplate engraving. The youngster showed such great talent combined with diligence that he became Maverick's business partner only five years later. Nevertheless Durand insisted on attending the American Academy of Fine Arts to study fine art. John Trumbull was so enthusiastic about his student that he commissioned him to paint a painting. Durand's painting "The Declaration of Independence" triggered strong feelings of jealousy in his former teacher Maverick, who even felt compelled to dissolve the business partnership. After an initial shock, Durand benefited from this. He started his own business and quickly became America's most successful engraver. During his long career as an engraver Durand engraved countless portraits and book illustrations.
At the age of 38 Durand was tired of engraving and gave up his business. Although he had only painted occasionally before, he wanted to devote himself completely to painting at good luck. The wealthy New York collector Luman Reed was the first prominent client to give him a lucrative commission: he wanted portraits of the early American presidents. A few years later Durand travelled to Europe. As a painter he now wanted to get to know the important works of the Dutch masters of the 17th century and the paintings of Salvator Rosa and Claude Lorrain. Back in his homeland, Durand became president of the National Academy of Design in New York and held this office until he resigned in 1862.
Since Durand was an engraver for a long time of his life, his first paintings are of hard texture. The details are worked out with meticulous accuracy. The colours still look pale. In his later works, however, he found a freer style and developed a love for juicy tones. In his well-known allegories of humanity "The Morning of Life" and "The Evening of Life" he depicted imaginary landscapes in a rich and varied way. He often painted his pictures outdoors. His landscape paintings are fresh interpretations of nature.
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.jpg "Landscape Scene from \"Thanatopsis\" by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "The Beeches, 1845 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "The Solitary Oak (The Old Oak), 1844 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "High Point: Shandaken Mountains, 1853 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Pitch Pines, North Mountain, Catskills, New York, 1848 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Nature Study: A Birch Tree, 1860 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Group of Trees, 1855-77 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Forest in the Morning Light, c. 1855 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Musidora, 1825 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "The First Harvest in the Wilderness, 1855 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "A Summer Afternoon by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Black Birches, Catskill Mountains, 1860 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "A Brook in the Woods, 1854 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Birch and Maples by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "River Scene by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Ideal Head: A Suggestion from Life, 1836 by Asher Brown Durand")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1336105).jpg "A Sycamore Tree, Kaaterskill Clove by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Ariadne by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "The Catskill Valley by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "A View of the Valley by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "His Excellency Oliver Wolcott, Governor of the State of Connecticut by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "View of the Hippocampus Fountain in the Borghese Gardens, Rome, Italy by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Study from Nature: Rocks and Trees by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, c.1835 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Study Rocks and Trees in Ice Glen, Stockbridge, Massachusetts by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Boys Playing Marbles, 1936 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Shandaken Ridge, Kingston, New York, c.1854 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Portrait of Thomas Cole by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Parish Church, Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1841 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Studies of a Tree and a Branch by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Strawberrying, 1854 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Forest Stream with Vista by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "His Excellency Oliver Wolcott, Governor of the State of Connecticut by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "John Quincy Adams, 1835 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Trees on a Rocky Hillside by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Study for Landscape-Composition: In the Catskills, 1848 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Chief Justice John Marshall, 1833 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Catherine Maria Sedgwick, 1832 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Pastoral Landscape by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "The Chestnut Oak on the Hosack Estate, Hyde Park, New York with Five Figures and an Artist Sketching, 1838 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Landscape, 1855 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Trees on a Rocky Hillside by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Study from Nature, Hoboken, New Jersey by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Island with Small Trees, Lake George, New York, 1862 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Portrait of James Madison by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "A View of the Valley by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Trees on the Shore of Lake George, Bolton, New York by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Luman Reed, 1835 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "A Natural Monarch by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Portrait of Mrs. George Washington, 1835 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Gipseying Party by Asher Brown Durand")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-196051).jpg "Haying Scene, 1836 by Asher Brown Durand")
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.jpg "Forest Landscape by Asher Brown Durand")
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