Albert Fitch Bellows

[citation needed] He resigned his post to travel and study abroad, and spent time in Paris and at the Royal Academy at Antwerp as well as in England.

[citation needed] Bellows settled in New York City in 1858 on his return to America.

In New York he kept a studio in the same building as many of the notable Hudson River School artists of the time.

[citation needed] Bellows also differed from most Hudson River School artists in that he became skilled at watercolor, and authored a respected book on the subject, Water-Color Painting: Some Facts and Authorities in Relation to Its Durability.

[1] Bellows also mastered etching—along with Samuel Colman he was possibly the only other Hudson River School artist to do so—and became a member of the New York Etching Club, the Philadelphia Society of Etchers and the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in London, England, an esteemed professional organization whose members included James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Francis Seymour Haden.