An American Aristocracy: The Livingstons John Frederic Kensett

John Frederic Kensett

founder of the Hudson River School of landscape painting

from venerable stone houses that survived the burning of the community by the British in 1777

This volume is lavishly illustrated in color and black and white

As you gaze at the old photographs in Saratoga Lost

An American Aristocracy: The Livingstons John Frederic KensettAuthor: Clare Brandt A Livingston descendant once called the Hudson Valley, Livingston Valley, and with good reason. The original 1686 Royal patent of 160,000 acres on the east side of the Hudson River to Scottish merchant Robert Livingston grew within two generations to nearly one million acres and included vast portions of the Catskill Mountains as well. Intermarriages with other wealthy and influential Hudson Valley familiesthe Roosevelts, Delanos,