Three American Painters of the 19th Century

George Henry Durrie(1820—1863)wasborn in New Haven,Connecticut,oneof the New England States in America.He started as a portrait painter but ended as alandscape painter.He was particularly fond of do-ing winter landscapes.At the time when Americawas moving rapidly on the way of industrialization,his winter landscape paintings,of New Englandcountry life took one away from the noise of urbanlife and put one in the midst of tranquility of rurallife.