A River Glimpse (CA. 1843–50) Poster

A River Glimpse (CA. 1843–50) by Thomas Doughty a native of Philadelphia. Doughty represents a link between the eighteenth-century pastoral style of landscape painting first imported from England and the passionate language of the Sublime introduced later by Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School. Doughty occasionally attempted to emulate the style of his more famous successor, as in the gnarled expressiveness of the largest tree in this picture, but he could never forsake the modesty of arrangement and touch that distilled, even from a specific site, a “river glimpse.” Although this artwork is digitally restored, the cracks and the fine lines are left intact on this painting to honour the time this painting emerged from.