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William Charles Anthony Frerichs (American, 1829-1905)
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William Charles Anthony Frerichs
View of Linville Falls, circa 1860
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Biography |
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1829 |
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Born Ghent, Belgium |
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1852 |
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Emigrated to America, first settling in New York City. |
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1854 |
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Moved to Greensboro, North Carolina where he was Professor of Arts and Languages at Greensboro Female College(now Greensboro College), taught at Edgewood Seminary and Quaker College in New Garden, North Carolina |
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1869 |
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Moved to Tottenville, Staten Island and later to Newark, New Jersey where he conducted an art school |
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Fully trained as an artist in the Dutch tradition, Royal Academy at the Hague under Andreas Schelfhout and Bartholomeus J. van Hove, two forerunners of the "Hague School," Royal Academy of Brussels. He was elected to the New York Sketch Club (thereby demonstrating an affiliation with the Hudson River School landscape painters). Instructor, painter of portraits (early) and landscapes, best known for landscapes, often winter scenes, first painter to explore and give pictorial definition to the gorges, waterfalls and foliage of the Blue Ridge around the French Broad and Sauratown Range, also painted the Connecticut River Valley, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the Hudson River and Quebec. |
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National Academy of Design |
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