(b Springfield Township, NJ, 21 Aug 1796; d Maplewood, NJ, 17 Sept 1886). American painter and engraver. He played a leading role in formulating both the theory and practice of mid-19th-century American landscape painting and was a central member of the HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL. Five years older than Thomas Cole, he matured considerably later as an artist. After an apprenticeship (1812–17) with Peter Maverick, he began his career as an engraver, attaining eminence with plates after John Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence (1820–23) and John Vanderlyn’s Ariadne (1835), the latter so accomplished that the chronicler William Dunlap claimed it would win Durand immortality as an engraver. As with many contemporary artists, his training was based on drawing, an experience that influenced his insistence on the importance of outline and precise rendering.

• Durand, Asher B(rown)
  • collaboration
    • Maverick, Peter Rushton
  • groups and movements
    • Hudson River school
    • Romanticism, §3(ii): Manifestations in art: Painting
  • patrons and collectors
    • Karolik, Maxim
    • Reed, Luman
    • Sturges, Jonathan
    • Walters: (1) William T. Walters
  • pupils
    • Casilear, John William
    • Colman, Samuel (ii)
    • Lanman, Charles
  • works
    • Harding, Chester
    • USA, §III, 1: Painting and graphic arts: The Colonial period, to 1820
    • USA, §III, 2: Painting and graphic arts: 19th-century developments
    • Vanderlyn, John