Description:
water; landscape; village; watercraft
Label Text:
Thomas Chambers was born in London and emigrated to the United States in 1832. He lived in a number of American cities, first in New Orleans, then moving to New York (1834-40), Boston (1843-50), and Albany. Although little else is known about his life, at least one hundred marine and landscape paintings by his distinctive hand and striking palette remain. Chambers based most of his work on print sources after other paintings. The museum's painting is one of four known versions by Chambers after a print by Léon Sabatier (after a painting by Jacques Gérard Milbert) from the "Picturesque Itinerary of the Hudson River and the Peripheral Parts of North America", published in 1928-29. Unlike the other versions, this one includes a shepherd with a herd of sheep moving down the road. The village of Caldwell, with its prominent church steeple, is seen across the lake.
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