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Frederic
Edwin Church was a painter, born in Hartford,
Connecticut, May 4, 1826. When quite young he
became a pupil of Thomas Cole at Catskill, New
York, where his first pictures were painted,
he early established himself in New York, and
in 1849 was elected a member of the National
academy.
In 1853 and 1857 he visited South America, and
made many sketches of tropical and Andean scenery,
which he afterward developed into large pictures.
Several years later an expedition to the coast
of Labrador gave him material for his great
picture entitled "Icebergs," which attracted
much attention on its exhibition in London in
1863.
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