James McDougal Hart

James McDougal Hart was a Scottish-born American landscape painter who became known for his idyllic pastoral scenes of the American countryside. Born in Kilmarnock, Scotland in 1828, Hart emigrated to the United States with his family as a young child, settling in Albany, New York. He came from an artistic family—his older brother William was also a successful landscape painter, and together they would become prominent figures in American art. Hart initially trained as a coa…