Mykhailo Sydorenko wants to know about two American painters -- Frederic Edwin Church and Albert Bierstadt.

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One of Cole's students was Frederic Edwin Church.

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Most notably there is Olana, the historic home of the Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church.

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But the collection's strength is American painting to 1945, and it boasts one of the greatest American landscapes ever painted, Frederic Edwin Church's "Niagara" (1857).

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