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==Artistic tributes== Mount Washington has been the subject of several famous paintings, part of a New England school of art known as [[White Mountain art]].<ref name="whitemountainart">{{cite web|title=Mount Washington Gallery|url=http://whitemountainart.com/about-3/subjects/mount-washington-gallery/|website=White Mountain Art & Artists|access-date=March 28, 2016|archive-date=March 22, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322081303/http://whitemountainart.com/about-3/subjects/mount-washington-gallery/|url-status=live}}</ref> Inspired by the [[Hudson River School]] of [[landscape painting]], a number of artists during the Victorian era ventured into the White Mountains in search of natural subjects.<ref name="theartwolf">{{cite web|title=Hudson River School - a taste for the landscape|url=https://theartwolf.com/art-essays/hudson-river-school/|website=The Art Wolf|date=March 2006|access-date=March 28, 2016|archive-date=August 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803134206/https://theartwolf.com/art-essays/hudson-river-school/|url-status=live}}</ref> Train service in the area spurred increased tourism and the construction of the [[Glen House]] where [[Albert Bierstadt]] and his photographer brother ([[Bierstadt Brothers]]) stayed. [[John P. Soule]],<ref name="plymouth">{{cite web| title=Summit House Mount Washington, John P. Soule| url=https://www.plymouth.edu/museum-of-the-white-mountains/14855/summit-of-mount-washington/summit-house-mount-washington-john-p-soule-1860-stereoview-card-image-museum-of-the-white-mountains-dan-noel-collection/| website=Museum of the White Mountains| publisher=[[Plymouth State University]]| access-date=March 28, 2016| archive-date=April 8, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408141031/https://www.plymouth.edu/museum-of-the-white-mountains/14855/summit-of-mount-washington/summit-house-mount-washington-john-p-soule-1860-stereoview-card-image-museum-of-the-white-mountains-dan-noel-collection/| url-status=live}}</ref> [[John B. Heywood (photographer)|John B. Heywood]]<ref name="nypl">{{cite web|title=Ledge and Mt. Adams Peak, from Mt. Washington Carriage Road|url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-9622-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99|website=NYPL Digital Collections|access-date=March 28, 2016|archive-date=April 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408182121/http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-9622-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99|url-status=live}}</ref> and the [[Kilburn Brothers]]<ref name="thecog">{{cite web| title=New Hampshire Historical Society Features Cog Railway Historic Photos| url=http://thecog.com/history_photos.php| website=Mount Washington Cog Railway| access-date=March 28, 2016| archive-date=April 1, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401044442/http://www.thecog.com/history_photos.php| url-status=live}}</ref> also produced stereographic images of scenery in the area. <gallery widths="200px" heights="150px"> File:Mt. Washington, from Glen House, by Soule, John P., 1827-1904.jpg|Mount Washington from [[Glen House]] in a [[stereographic]] image by [[John P. Soule]] Ferdinand Richardt Summit of Mount Washington in the White Mountains.jpg|[[Ferdinand Richardt]] (1857) Benjamin Champney - Mount Washington.jpg|[[Benjamin Champney]] JKensett Mount Washington (JJH-JFK001).jpg|[[John Frederick Kensett|John F. Kensett]] (1869) Autumn in the Conway Meadows Looking Towards Mount Washington.jpg|[[Albert Bierstadt]] (1858) </gallery>
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