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Thomas Doughty was born in Philadelphia on July 19, 1793, and lived there until 1828.

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Thomas Doughty was an American painter who is noted as one of the first Americans to specialize in landscapes and whose works laid the groundwork for the.

Doughty is renowned as the first American artist to devote himself to landscape painting, and regarded as an initiator of the native American landscape school.

Although little is known about his formal education, he apparently showed a strong talent for drawing from an early age. When he was fifteen or sixteen Doughty was apprenticed to a leather worker, and by 1814 he was listed in the Philadelphia directory as a "currier." However, two years later he was cited as a "painter" and he exhibited a landscape at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Doughty's early career as an artist seems to have met with little success, and from 1818 to 1819 he was working once again as a leather currier. He continued to paint during these years and finally, in 1820, decided to make landscape painting his full-time career.

Doughty was largely self-trained, and he relied heavily on copying European landscapes which he saw in collections such as that of his early patron Robert Gilmor, Jr., of Baltimore.

From these he learned the established conventions of Continental l