Sanford Robinson Gifford

Sanford Robinson Gifford (* July 10, 1823 in Greenfield, New York, † August 24 1880 in New York ) was an American landscape, marine and portrait painter. He is associated with the Hudson River School.

Life

Gifford was born on July 10, 1823 in Greenfield, New York, the son of a steel entrepreneur and grew up in Hudson. He attended Brown University in Providence in 1845 and came to New York. Here he studied drawing and anatomy at John Rubens Smith. A study trip in 1846 in the Catskill Mountains and Bershire led him to landscape painting, although he was not trained in that direction. His early works were heavily influenced by the works of Thomas Cole, without the tendency to take to religious motives. Gifford it represents the first time in 1847, the National Academy of Design from. In 1851 he was appointed here in 1854 and an associate member to full member.

From 1855 to 1857 Gifford traveled Europe and met John Ruskin and the works of John Constable and William Turner know. During a visit to the World Expo in Paris, he also came into contact with the works of the Barbizon School. During the winter 1856-1857 he spent together with Albert Bierstadt and Worthington Whittredge in Rome and then traveled with beer city of Naples and Capri. In the same year he returned to New York and rented a studio at 10th Street, which he retained until his death.

In the American Civil War he served three years on the part of the Northern states. In 1868, he traveled again to Europe and only visited Italy and later Greece, Syria, Egypt and Turkey. In 1870, he traveled together with Wittredge and John F. Kensett in the Rocky Mountains to Colorado and joined an expedition of Ferdinand Hayden, which was to serve the geological and geographical coverage of Wyoming. 1874 was another trip to the American West, this time to California, Oregon, British Columbia and even to Alaska, occasional trips also took him to Maine and Canada. In 1877 he married, but died in 1880, Gifford from malaria and pneumonia.

Works (selection)

Fishing Boats coming into Brindisi Harbor

Kenilworth Castle

Stelvio Road by Lago di Como