Asher Brown Durand (1796 - 1886) Oil on canvas, signed lower left faintly, measures 29.5 x 12.5 and 37 x 19 inches w/frame. Known as the "father of American landscape painting", Asher Durand was the major exponent of the Hudson River School style of painting. However, he did not take up painting with any seriousness until he was age forty. His early career was engraving, and in 1823, he earned much distinction for his engraving of John Trumbull's 1787 painting, The Declaration of Independence.Durand was born in Jefferson Village, now Maplewood, New Jersey to a family of eleven children supported by the father, John Durand, who was a watchmaker and silversmith. Working with his father monogramming watches and crafting silver, young Asher Durand developed engraving skills, which determined the early years of his career. At age 16, he went to Newark, where he apprenticed to Peter Maverick, and five years later, they formed a partnership in New York City from 1817 to 1820.

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