19th Century Naive Hudson River Landscape Oil Painting by well-listed British American Primitive / Naive artist Thomas Chambers (1798-1866) | Oil on Canvas | Circa. 1850 | Hudson River Scene depicting a woman with livestock on a road opposite a river mill, distant town and mountains | Unsigned | Housed in a walnut frame with broad gold liner | Approx. Size: Frame: 25.5" H x 31.5" W; Image: 19" H x 25" W.

Born in England to a merchant sailor and a washerwoman, Thomas Chambers became a painter known for landscape and marine scenes, especially of the Hudson River from Albany and from New York City, all in naive, primitive style with bold color, rhythmic shapes, and strong contours applied with brush-work that made his work seem vital and lively. He differed from most painters of primitive style because, influenced by his decorative style, he used large, rhythmic shapes with light and shadow instead of flat forms. And he certainly differed in style from the Hudson River School of Painting that, influenced by European painting, was becoming active at the time he started his career in America. In that era, some persons were disdainful of the Hudson River painters as being too influenced by Europeans, but in the 21st century, reportedly "Chamber's cartoon like energy and rhythmic sense of design continue to appeal to modern taste". Kathleen A. Foster: Thomas Chambers (1808-1869, American Marine and Landscape Painter.