He also painted The Departure and The Return, though the prime example of his works may be found in View on the Catskill - Early Autumn and The Clove, Catskills, which influenced Asher Durand and Frederic Church.  
His first attempts at landscapes were made after learning oils from an itinerant portraitist named Stein.  After studying the techniques of Thomas Doughty and Thomas Birch at the Pennsylvania Academy, he went on to produce such works as Falls of Kaaterskill and Schroon Mountain, Adirondacks.  He also painted The Departure and The Return, though the prime example of his works may be found in View on the Catskill - Early Autumn and The Clove, Catskills, which influenced Asher Durand and Frederic Church.  FTP, identify this Hudson River School artist of The Voyage of Life and The Course of Empire.
His first attempts at landscapes were made after learning oils from an itinerant portraitist named Stein.  
Thomas Cole