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The Niagara Falls were such an attraction to landscape artists that, writes John Howat, they were "the most popular, the most often treated, and the tritest single item of subject matter to appear in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European and American landscape painting".

  • A General View of the Falls of Niagara by Alvan Fisher, 1820

  • Distant View of Niagara Falls by Thomas Cole, 1830

  • Niagara Fälle. Les chûtes du Niagara. Niagara Falls by Karl Bodmer, circa 1832

  • Voute sous la Chute du Niagara – Niagara Falls, circa 1841

  • Niagara by Frederic Edwin Church, 1857

  • Underneath Niagara Falls by Ferdinand Richardt, 1862

  • Niagara by Louis Rémy Mignot, circa 1866

  • Falls of Niagara from Below by Albert Bierstadt, 1869

  • Niagara Falls by William Morris Hunt, 1878

  • Niagara Falls, circa 1880

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