Cranch, Christopher Pearse, 1813-1892
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Cranch, Christopher Pearse (American painter, 1813-1892)
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Cranch, Christopher Peasce, 1813-1892
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Christopher Pearse Cranch
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Cranch, Christopher Pearce
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Pearse Cranch, Christopher 1813-1892
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Cranch, Christopher P. 1813-1892
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American poet and artist.
Cranch was a Unitarian minister, poet, author, artist, editor, humorist, and member of the New England transcendentalist group.
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Artist, poet, and Unitarian minister.
C.P. Cranch was the 10th child of William Cranch and Nancy Greenleaf Cranch, born on March 8, 1813 in the District of Columbia. He graduated from Columbian College in the District of Columbia (now George Washington University ) in 1832 and the Harvard Divinity School in 1835. Cranch served for a short time as a Unitarian minister, then moved to the Ohio Valley where he edited the transcendentalist magazine Western Messenger with James Freeman Clarke from 1837 to 1839. It was during this time that he drew a number of caricatures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, based upon passages in Emerson's works. Cranch went on to write and publish four volumes of poetry, wrote children's stories, translated texts in Latin and German, and was a landscape painter in the manner of the Hudson River School .
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Multi-talented Unitarian minister Christopher Pearse Cranch was an accomplished scholar, painter, translator, poet and musician. An important Transcendentalist, he was respected for his creativity and engaging conversation. He and his family lived in Europe at different times, where he studied painting and circulated in European art and literary circles.
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