The Best of American Painting – National Gallery of Art, Washington

American Painting at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (collection highlights). Best viewed full screen and in 1080p (HD video). Music: “Dreaming” by Amy Beach (1867 - 1944, American composer). Alan Feinberg, piano. American Painters: Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) - one of America's foremost portraitists. Thomas Cole (1801-1842) - an Anglo-American painter known for his landscapes and history paintings; the founder of Hudson River School George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894) - American portrait painter Worthington Whittredge (1820-1910) – an American artist of the Hudson River School. Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880) - an American landscape painter associated with Hudson River School and Luminist style. Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900) – An American landscape artist of the Hudson River School. Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900) – an American landscape painter of the Hudson River School. Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) - German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American west. John George Brown (1831-1913) – a British-American painter who specialized in genre scenes. William Stanley Haseltine (1835-1900) – an American landscape painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school and the Hudson River School. Winslow Homer (1836-1910) – an American landscape painter and printmaker best known for his marine subjects. Thomas Moran (1837-1926) – an American landscape painter of the Hudson River School. Mary Stevenson Cassatt (1844-1926) – an American Impressionist painter and printmaker who specialized in depicting intimate bonds between mothers and children. William Michael Harnett (1848-1892) – an Irish-American painter known for his trompe-l'œil still lifes of ordinary objects. George de Forest Brush (1855-1941) - A painter influenced by the Italian Renaissance and his studies with Jean-Léon Gérôme in Paris. Renowned for his paintings of Native Americans. John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) – an American expatriate artist, considered the leading portrait painter of his generation. Charles Frederic Ulrich (1858-1908) – an American Realist painter best known for his genre scenes of working-class people. William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) – an American painter, known as an exponent of Impressionism Edward Hopper (1882-1967) - one of the most important realist painters of 20th century America.