![]() ![]() ![]() During 1837, he accompanied his friend Thomas Cole on a sketching expedition to Schroon Lake in the Adirondacks Mountains and soon after he began to concentrate on landscape painting. His main interest changed from engraving to oil painting about 1830 with the encouragement of his patron, Luman Reed. Along with his brother Cyrus he also engraved some of the succeeding 1851 issues. Durand helped organize the New York Drawing Association during 1825, which would become the National Academy of Design he would serve the organization as president from 1845 to 1861.Īsher's engravings on bank notes were used as the portraits for America's first postage stamps, the 1847 series. ![]() He engraved Declaration of Independence for John Trumbull during 1823, which established Durand's reputation as one of the country's finest engravers. Asher Brown Durand (Aug– September 17, 1886) was an American painter of the Hudson River School.ĭurand was born in and eventually died in Maplewood, New Jersey (then called Jefferson Village), the eighth of eleven children his father was a watchmaker and a silversmith.ĭurand was apprenticed to an engraver from 1812 to 1817 and later entered into a partnership with the owner of the company, Charles Cushing Wright (1796–1854), who asked him to manage the company's New York office.
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