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Thomas Doughty ( 1793 – 1856 ) Plate 15 Landscape , c. 1846 Oil on canvas 18 1 / 8 x 24 1 / 8 inches Signed right center: t. doughty provenance The artist The American Art-Union, NewYork J.J. Simpson (Stimson), Providence, Rhode Island To his daughter Reverend Diman, Providence, Rhode Island, by marriage to Ms. Stimson To their son, Reverend Diman, Providence, Rhode Island To his sister, Providence, Rhode Island Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Porter, bequeathed from the above Private collection, Boston, by descent from the above exhibited American Art-Union, NewYork, 1846 Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island Collects Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Albany Institute of History and Art, NewYork, Thomas Doughty, 1793 – 1856: An American Pioneer in Landscape Painting , October 19, 1973 –April 7, 1974 literature Frank H. Goodyear, Thomas Doughty, 1793 – 1856 : An American Pioneer in Landscape Painting (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1973 ), p. 29 , no. 44 . He must undoubtedly be considered the master and founder of a new school—no small honor in this imitative age. . . .We cannot think that any European artist could produce such pictures. thomas r. hofland, art critic, 1839 1 Doughty’s pictures and Cole’s pictures should be placed apart from the rest.We all admit them to be our masters; Cole in one style and Doughty in another . . . Doughty, in study perpetual, is the Painter of Nature. The Knickerbocker, 1848 2 Student of Natural History Like many landscape painters, Doughty derived his inspiration from a true fascination with the outdoors. As one critic wrote: “From his earliest boy- hood he loved the woods, the streams, the hills and the valleys. He dwelt with them—he felt their power—he made them his study and delight.” 3 In addition to painting, Doughty coedited amonthly natural historymagazine, The Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports , and he provided detailed images of indigenous birds and animals to accompany the text. For Doughty, natural history and landscape painting were intrinsically connected, and his appreciation for all aspects of nature is evident in paintings such as Landscape . — agr Doughty’s paintings are featured in the collections of the BrooklynMuseum, National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, Baltimore Museum of Art, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 1 Thomas R. Hofland, “The Fine Arts,” The Knickerbocker, or NewYork Monthly Magazine 14 , no. 1 (July 1839 ): 50 . 2 The Knickerbocker, or NewYork Monthly Magazine (October 1848 ): 363 . 3 E. Anna Lewis, “Art and Artists of America,” Graham’s American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion 45, no. 5 (November 1854 ): 483 – 484 . Quoted in Frank H. Goodyear, Thomas Doughty, 1793 – 1856 : An American Pioneer in Landscape Painting (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1973 ), p. 15 .