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Thomas Doughty (1793-1856)
Aliases: Thomas (1793) Doughty
Professions: Landscape painter; Naval painter; Illustrator
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Thomas Doughty (1793-1856)
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Thomas Doughty (1793-1856)
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Thomas Doughty (1793-1856)
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THOMAS DOUGHTY 1793-1856
Thomas Doughty Biography
(b Philadelphia, PA, 19 July 1793; d New York, 24 July 1856). American painter. Doughty belonged to the generation of American landscape painters that included Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand and was an important precursor of the HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL. Basically self-taught, he worked as a leather currier in Philadelphia, PA, before becoming an artist. In 1816 Doughty exhibited Landscape—Original (untraced) at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Four years later he listed himself in the Philadelphia directory as a landscape painter. Old Master landscapes (or copies) exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy, together with contemporary European paintings and compositions by fellow Philadelphians Thomas Birch and Joshua Shaw, access to major private collections (such as those of his patron Robert Gilmor jr of Baltimore, MD, and Joseph Bonaparte of Bordentown, NJ), engravings and artists’ manuals all contributed to his knowledge of the European landscape tradition. Among Doughty’s earliest surviving landscapes are View of Baltimore from Beech Hill, the Seat of Robert Gilmor jr (1822; Baltimore, MD, Mus. A.) and Landscape with Pool (c. 1823; Philadelphia, PA Acad. F.A.), which show his mastery of atmospheric effects and command of his medium. They also reveal in their Claudean compositions the artist’s familiarity with the then popular aesthetic of the Picturesque. Although Doughty occasionally depicted cityscapes (e.g. View of the Waterworks on the Schuylkill , 1826; priv. col., see 1973 exh. cat., no. 7), he is best known for his romantic interpretations of Sublime American scenery, which were often poetic evocations rather than faithful portraits of specific places (e.g. On the Beach , 1827–8; Albany, NY, Inst. Hist. & A.).
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