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George Inness was a United States painter, born in
Newburgh, New York on May 1, 1825, and who died at
Bridge of Allan, Scotland, on August 3, 1894. 

Inness was one of what came to be known as the
Hudson River School of artists. He was regarded as
the finest American landscape artist of his time.

Inness was the 5th of 13 children of a
supermarket|grocer. His family moved to Newark,
New Jersey when he was about 4 years of age. In
his teens, Inness worked as a map engraver while
sketching scenes from nature on the side.  During
this time period, he attracted the attention of
fellow artist Regis Gignoux, whom he soon after
moved to New York City to study with.  In Inness
was in his early 20s, a patron named Ogden
Haggerty sponsored a trip the artist took to
Europe to paint and study. Inness spent a year in
Italy as well as a year in France before returning
to the United States. 

Innes was heavily influenced by the theology of
Emanuel Swedenborg. Introduced to
Swedenborgianism|Swedenborgian thought by artist
William Page during the 1860's, he took
inspiration from Swedenborgian ideas regarding the
Divine in Creation, particularly the notion that
every thing in nature had a correspondential
relationship with something spiritual and so
received an "influx" from God in order to
continually exist.

Innes was also influenced by William James (who
was also influenced by Swedenborg). In particular,
Innes was inspired by James' idea of consciousness
as a "stream of thought", and also his ideas
concerning how mystical experience shapes one's
perspective toward nature.

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== References ==
Bell, Adrienne Baxter. George Inness and the
Visionary Landscape. 2003. ISBN 0807615250.