Daniel Charles Grose

An inveterate traveller, he painted scenes across eastern Canada and throughout the United States, in addition to countries abroad.

"[2] After serving in the Merchant Navy in the early 1850s, Grose married his first wife, Louisa Askew, on June 8, 1856, at Chatham, Kent, England.

As a lieutenant in the Royal East India Engineer Corps,[4] he volunteered for active duty and served until the rebellion was suppressed.

Mary returned to her family in New Brunswick, but soon went back to New York where she died in 1881 of "exhaustion due to acute mania.

[14] He sketched and painted in the northeastern United States,[15] including Maine, the Hudson River Valley, and Connecticut.

[13] Some of his works deriving from his travels to India were highly rated by contemporaries,[13] and his painting Lalla Rookh was particularly celebrated.

The Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art lists two of his works, seasonal views of Wissahickon Creek in Pennsylvania, as examples of the Hudson school.