Born in Philadelphia. Lived in New York. Was first American to work as a landscapist. Known for painting landscapes, rivers, cities, farms, harbors, fishermen, and boats. Painter, lithographer, Hudson River. Illustrated animals and birds in journal, Cabinet of Natural History and American Rural Sports.

Exhibited: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

In the collection of: Birmingham Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Everson Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; Columbus Museum of Art; Allen Memorial Art Museum; Butler Institute of American Art; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Carnegie Museum of Art; Gibbes Museum of Art; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; Brigham Young University Museum; San Diego Museum of Art; de Young Memorial Museum; Wadsworth Athenaeum; Yale University Art; Lyman Allyn Museum; National Gallery of Art; National Portrait Gallery; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Delaware Art Museum; Georgia Museum of Art;High Museum of Art; Mead Art Museum; Boston Athenaeum; Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Worcester Art Museum; Baltimore Museum of Art; Detroit Institute of Art; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Ackland Art Museum; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery; Joslyn Art Museum; Newark Museum; Brooklyn Museum of Art; National Academy of Design; New York Historical Society