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Hendrik-Dirk Kruseman Van Elten (1829 - 1904) O/C

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Hendrik-Dirk Kruseman Van Elten (1829 - 1904) O/C
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Hendrik-Dirk Kruseman Van Elten, (1829 - 1904).
"The Ausable River NY"
Important American Adirondack Exhibition frame.
Hudson River School, Oil on Canvas.
Masterful rendering of a rocky stream in a forest setting. Signed lower right under framing.
Overall size: 34 1/2 x 38 1/2 in.
Sight size: 18 1/4 x 22 in.

Hendrik-Dirk Kruseman Van Elten (1829 - 1904) was active/lived in New York / Europe. Hendrik Dirk Van Elten is known for Romantic style landscape and coastal view painting, etching.

Hendrik-Dirk Kruseman van Elten was born in Alkmaar, Holland in 1828. His earliest professional training in art was with Cornelius Lieste in Haarlem, Holland. Lieste was a successful landscape painter in the Dutch Romantic School of the nineteenth century. After extensive training with Lieste, van Elten toured Holland and northern Europe with stays in France, Germany and Belgium where he painted and toured museums in the major cities of the area.

Shipping records and census information record van Elten in the New York area of the United States by 1865. Records at the National Academy of Design list Van Elten as a regular contributor to exhibitions in America’s premier and most prestigious public space, the National Gallery of Design, from 1866 to 1900. In 1871 van Elten was elected to the rank of Associate. In 1883 he was elected to the full rank of Academician of the National Academy of Design in New York City.