Nelson Augustus Moore

Nelson Augustus Moore (1824-1902) was a painter in the Hudson Valley School.

 A Study in the Narrows, Lake George

 April Snow (1871)

 Bridge in Winter

 Children at Mill Pond

 Church Spires in Waterbury (1864)

 Farmer, Son and White Horse

 Lake George

 Looking North Through the Narrows, Lake George (1897)

Moonlight on Lake George

Edward Moran

Edward Moran (1829-1901) was the lesser-known brother of Thomas Moran, whose works were featured earlier on this blog. Edward Moran specialized in seascapes.

 A Foggy Evening at Gowanus (1860)

 Fishing Boats Beating up to Windward (ca. 1858)

 Fishing Boats at Sunset

 Life-Saving Patrol (ca. 1893)

 Lighthouse Along the Coast

 Ship at Sea, Sunset

 The Unveiling of the Statue of Liberty, Enlightening the World (1886)

 Steamships and Sailing Boats in New York Harbor (1893)

 Sunset, New York Bay (1872)

 Winter at the Farm

Sailing by Moonlight, New York Harbor

Early Portraits

Here are some portraits, most from the first half of the 19th century. First, several by various members of the Peale family:

 Charles Willson Peale: The Peale Family (completed 1809)

(there's a YouTube video telling the story of this painting)

 James Peale: Anna Sophia Alexander Robertson (Mrs. William Heberton) (1816)

 Sarah Miriam Peale: Mrs. Charles Ridgely Carroll (Rebecca Ann Pue) (ca. 1822)

 Sarah Miriam Peale: Veiled Woman (1830)

Next, a few by Gilbert Stuart, early America's leading portraitist:

 Gilbert Stuart: George Washington (the Landsdowne portrait) (1796)

 Gilbert Stuart: Dolley Madison (1804)

Gilbert Stuart: Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis (1809)

 Henry Inman: Angelica Van Buren (1842)

 Jacob Eichholtz: Serena Mayer Franklin (1838)

David Martin: Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (1767)

George Healy: Euphemia White Van Rensselear (1842)

 Edward Savage: The Washington Family (1789-1796)

Lewis Thomas Ives: Frances Elizabeth Newbury Bagley (1872-1882)

Martin Johnson Heade

Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) specialized in landscape and nature painting, focusing particularly on marshes and hummingbirds. He has a clear connection with the Hudson River School. There's a site devoted to him with low-resolution images of his complete output.

 A Cloudy Day (1874)

 Dawn (1862)

 Duck Hunters in a Twilight Marsh (1866)

 Haystacks on the Newburyport Marshes (1862)

 Sailing off the Coast (1869)

 The Great Florida Marsh (1886)

 Thunderstorm on Narragansett Bay (1868)

 Twilight on the St. Johns River (ca. 1885)

White Mountain Landscape, Mount Washington (1871)

 Cattleya Orchid and Three Brazilian Hummingbirds (1871)

 Orchid with Two Hummingbirds (1871)

 Orchids and Hummingbird (date not known)

 Still Life with Apple Blossoms in a Nautilus Shell (1870)

Two Fighting Hummingbirds with Two Orchids (1875)

Francis William Edmonds

Francis William Edmonds (1806-1863) was a 19th century American genre painter. His scenes of daily life often focused on humorous aspects of courtship, as exemplified by the first painting.

 Barking Up the Wrong Tree (1850-55)

 The City and Country Beaux (1840)

 The Image Pedlar (1844)

Below is a timeless depiction of a father dismayed by the cost of his daughter's fashion consciousness.

 The New Bonnet (1858)

Concerning the following painting, The Speculator, the Smithsonian exhibit says: 

"A rural couple listens skeptically to a representative of the Building Association, identified by the paper in his coat pocket. The salesman—whose top hat, pointed shoes, and umbrella mark him as a city slicker—promises the couple a better life as he unrolls a listing of '1000 Valuable Lots on Rail Road Ave.' Francis William Edmonds's comic genre scenes captured the rough-and-tumble of America's frontiers."

The Speculator (1852)

 The Windmill (ca. 1858)

 Time to Go (1857)

The New Scholar, engraved by Alfred Jones  (1850)