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656 Painting Society, the Course of Empire — five landscape scenes, his master-piece ; his famous series of Voyage of Life, formerly in the Taylor Johnston Collection of New York ; and the Mountain Ford, and Kenilworth Castle, both of which were shown at Philadelphia in 1876. Many of his works, frequently views of the Catskills, are in the private and public galleries of America. He may be considered the father of American Landscape Art. Side by side with Cole, must be mentioned Thomas Doughty (1793 — 1856), who did much for the furtherance of landscape art. He did not commence painting until he was twenty-eight years old, and he was entirely self- taught. Of the next generation of landscapists, a foremost man was — John F. Kensett (1818—1873), who began life as an engraver, studied painting for seven years in Europe — visiting Italy, Switzerland and the Rhine; he then set- tled in America and rose to fame as a landscape painter. " Kensett' s best pictures," says Tucker man, " exhibit a rare purity of feeling, an accuracy and delicacy, and especially a harmonious treatment, perfectly adapted to the subject." Sandford R. GifFord (died 1880), a good painter of landscapes and sea pieces, excelled in the representation of the effect of sunlight. Henry Inman (1802 — 1846) studied for some time in New York under Jarvis, a good artist of the period. After several years spent in New York, he settled at Philadelphia, where he became famous as a painter of portraits, and occasionally of landscapes and genre pictures. In 1843, he went to England, where he remained for two years; and painted among other portraits those of Wordsworth and Macaulay.