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Asher Brown Durand
American Hudson River School painter, engraver & printmaker
born 1796 - died 1886
Student of: Peter Maverick
(1780-1831).
Teacher of: Samuel Colman
(1832-1920).
Nephew of: Peter Maverick
(1780-1831).
Employee of: John Trumbull
(1756-1843).
Asher Brown Durand
American, 1796 - 1886
Asher B. Durand was born on August 21, 1796, in Jefferson Village (now
Maplewood), New Jersey, and studied engraving with his father, a
watchmaker and silversmith. From 1812 to 1817 he was apprenticed to the
New Jersey engraver Peter Maverick.
In 1817 he formed a partnership with Maverick and opened a branch of the
firm in New York. Around 1818 Durand began informal study and drawing
from plaster casts at the American Academy of Fine Arts, where his work
came to the attention of the Academy's president,
John Trumbull (1756-1843). In 1820 Trumbull commissioned
Durand to engrave his painting The Declaration of Independence
(1787-1820, Yale University Art Gallery). Durand became a leading
engraver, and enjoyed considerable success producing bank notes, book
illustrations, portraits, and copies after other artists' works. |
