Mount Auburn Cemetery
c. 1850 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
About this artwork
This landscape painting depicts the serene grounds of Mount Auburn Cemetery with a small pond, manicured trees, and architectural funerary elements. A couple walking along a path in the foreground adds a sense of scale and human presence to the tranquil setting.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery, founded in 1831 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was the first 'rural cemetery' in the United States and served as the prototype for the American cemetery movement. Thomas Chambers, a self-taught marine and landscape artist, was well-known for his stylized, simplified depictions of popular American scenery during the mid-19th century.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery
Thomas Chambers, c. 1850
