Guess the Artist

Your clues this week are:

• The artist was American, active in the 19th-century, and did not initially train to be a painter.
• Although best known today for pictures of water -- ocean shorelines, rivers, waterfalls, and lakes -- it was a monumental landscape that cemented the artist's reputation.
• The artist was a founding member and trustee of a museum whose original ground floor is now a Tommy Hilfiger store.

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• The view here is part of what we call the Appalachian Trail, although neither the cows, the sheep, the dog, nor the boy are hiking its 2,184 miles. Why? The Appalachian Trail didn't exist yet. Not even as a euphemism for visiting one's mistress in Buenos Aires.

Please email me your guesses over the coming week. I'll post the winner and correct answer with next week's guessing game. Good luck!

Last Week's Answer:

One part of last week's clues seemed to throw readers off. Specifically, "The artist was an American, but wasn't born in the United States of America." Now, the artist was Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) and the sitter was Henry Clay (1777-1852). The artist was born in Maryland, but you may note that his year of birth was 1741 ... when the Province of Maryland was still a British colony. Excellent detective work, Susan! You sent the first correct answer.

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