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Thomas Doughty was the first American artist to devote himself exclusively to the genre of landscape painting. The Philadelphia native appears to have been largely self-trained. In 1816 he was listed at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as a “painter,” where he exhibited a landscape, and in 1820 he committed himself to a career as a landscape painter. He was elected to the Pennsylvania Academy in 1824 and shortly thereafter was made an honorary member of the National Academy of Design. . . .
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