Sanford R. Gifford 1871 Launt Thompson American Sanford R. Gifford (1823–1880) based his atmospheric, light-filled paintings on the close study of nature, often depicting scenes in the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains. From 1857 until his death, he worked in New York City in the Tenth Street Studio Building, but he took frequent trips, both in the United States and abroad, to produce on-site sketches. Thompson, too, was a long-term occupant of the Tenth Street building and moved in the same circles as many of the Hudson River School painters. He modeled this realistic portrait just after Giff

Sanford R. Gifford 1871 Launt Thompson American Sanford R. Gifford (1823–1880) based his atmospheric, light-filled paintings on the close study of nature, often depicting scenes in the Catskill and Adirondack Mountains. From 1857 until his death, he worked in New York City in the Tenth Street Studio Building, but he took frequent trips, both in the United States and abroad, to produce on-site sketches. Thompson, too, was a long-term occupant of the Tenth Street building and moved in the same circles as many of the Hudson River School painters. He modeled this realistic portrait just after Gifford served on a committee planning the formation of The Metropolitan Museum of Sanford R. Gifford 12804

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