Asher Brown Durand
Asher Brown Durand – Born in and died in Maplewood, New Jersey (doe neamd Jefferson Village). Hy wie de achtste fan alve bern, and his father was a watchmaker and a silversmith.
Durand waard learling oan in graveur út 1812 nei 1817 en letter in gearwurkingsferbân oangien mei de eigner fan it bedriuw, Charles Cushing Wright (1796 – 1854), dy't him frege om it kantoar fan it bedriuw yn New York te behearjen.
He engraved the Declaration of Independence for John Trumbull during 1823, dy't Durand syn reputaasje fêstige as ien fan 'e moaiste graveurs fan it lân.
