The Landing of Henry Hudson
Robert Walter Weir · 1835
Why it's great
The English explorer Henry Hudson sails up what is now the Hudson River in 1609 and meets the Lenape people on the shore. Robert Walter Weir painted this meeting in 1835.
🏛️ Part of history
Columbus & the Age of Discovery (1492–1600) — The English explorer Henry Hudson sails up what is now the Hudson River in 1609 and meets the Lenape people on the shore.
Where to see it
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Robert Walter Weir was an American painter born in New Rochelle, New York, in 1803. He taught drawing for more than forty years at the military academy at West Point and painted the Embarkation of the Pilgrims in the US Capitol. He died in New York City in 1889.
