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William C.A. Frerichs
In 1850, William Carl Anthony Frerichs arrived in New York City from Brussels. In 1852 he exhibited at the National Academy of Design and was elected to the New York Sketch Club, thus affiliating himself with the Hudson River School of landscape painting ( Art and Artists of the South, Bruce w. Chambers, University of South Carolina Press, 1984, S.C.). By 1855, he had accepted a teaching position at Greensboro College in North Carolina. He discovered in western North Carolina a wilderness as wild as anything he had seen in New York state and proceeded to capture the scenery around the Blue Ridge Mountains and the French Broad River. Constantly harassed by Indians, Frerichs explored the balds and gorges of the Blue Ridge in search of subject matter for his expansive canvases. He returned to New York in 1865 and spent the rest of his life in New Jersey and on Staten Island, where he died in 1905.

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In the North Carolina Mountains