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Lake Millinocket, sunset by Frederic Edwin Church, 1870 adriatic sea Captaincy of the Further andLake Millinocket, sunset by Frederic Edwin Church (c. 1870) is a luminous late 19th century landscape from one of the foremost figures of the Hudson River School. Churchs gift for transforming precise observation into poetry is on full display: a quiet Maine lake glows under an orange and amber sky, distant hills cool to violet browns on the horizon, and a small sailboat drifts across rippling water that mirrors the last light of day. Rooted in