Asher Brown Durand

(1796–1886) American painter and engraver (1796-1886)

Asher Brown Durand (USA, 1796–1886) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a printmaker, and a photographer. By year of birth, Asher Brown Durand belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.

Asher Brown Durand was born in Maplewood and died in Maplewood. Asher Brown Durand worked in New York City. Wikidata associates Asher Brown Durand with Hudson River school. Asher Brown Durand became a member of Century Association and Century Association.

The best-known works include ‘The Capture of Major André’ and ‘The Hunter’. The works belong mainly to the genre landscape painting. The catalogue has 209 works by Asher Brown Durand with free images. The dated works span the years 1820–1878. Works by Asher Brown Durand are held by several collections, among them New York Historical, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and Yale University Art Gallery. Wikidata links 3 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Charles Robert Leslie, James B. Longacre, Lizinska de Mirbel, August Wilhelm Julius Ahlborn, and Dimitar Zograf.

• Romanticism
• Kindred Spirits