Hungarian, 1857-1912 Related Paintings of Pataky, Laszlo :. | Portrait of Vita Sackville-West | Portrait of Denis Diderot | Das Auge des Gesetzes | Saint George Slaying the Dragon | The Oyster Lunch (nn03) | Related Artists: Thomas Van Buerle fl1809-1835
Robert S.Duncanson American artist .
1821-1872
A self-taught mulatto artist and a landscape painter of the Hudson River school tradition, Duncanson was the first Afro-American artist to receive international recognition. Born into a family of painters and handymen, Duncanson first worked as a house-painter and glazier in Monroe, MI. By 1841 he was in Cincinnati, OH, where he learnt to paint by executing portraits and copying prints. Throughout the 1840s he travelled as an itinerant artist between Cincinnati, Monroe and Detroit. Victor DeGrailly painted Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine in c1840