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VIEW OF GLASS LAKE,NEW YORK by Joseph H Hidley (c. 1855).
JOSEPH HENRY HIDLEY (1830-1872), folk artist and landscape painter, never reaped much financial reward from his paintings during his short life. He could not have known that his paintings would be offered for sale on the Internet some 140 years later for $3,800, or that Encarta Encyclopedia would write of him, "Joseph Hidley was a genuine landscapist who painted charming scenes of his own village of Poestenkill, New York, and of neighboring towns."
Joseph Henry Hidley was born 23 March 1830 in Greenbush, the part that later became North Greenbush, Rensselaer County, NY. He was baptised 11 July 1830 at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in the village of West Sand Lake, in the town of Sand Lake, Rensselaer County. Joseph's family had close ties to this church through several generations.
His parents were George M. Hidley (1806-1834) and Hannah Susannah Simmons, who had been married on 24 March 1827 at the bride's father's home, as recorded in the marriage register of Zion Lutheran. Joseph's elder brother, James Henry Hidley, had died in infancy. Joseph had two younger sisters, Elizabeth Ann Hidley, born 27 March 1832, and Gitty Ann Hidley, born 11 September 1833; they, too, were baptised at Zion Lutheran. It is said that George M. Hidley died when Joseph was only four years old. George's parents were Michael Hidley (1772-1858) and Gertrude Cipperly (1731-1834). Joseph lost his grandmother within a year of losing his father, but he would have remembered his grandfather Michael Hidley, as well as Michael's last wife, Lydia. Joseph would have known his many Hidley cousins who all lived near each other in North Greenbush.
In about 1854, Joseph Hidley married an innkeeper's daughter, Caroline M. Danforth (1837-1870) of Poestenkill, Rensselaer County, NY, and settled in Poestenkill permanently. Caroline was a daughter of Lyman Danforth (1786-1863) and his wife Emeline (1803-1886), who had both been born in Massachusetts. Newlyweds Joseph and Caroline Hidley lived with her parents in the 1855 NY State Census They had six children, of whom only three survived beyond early childhood.
As a young husband and father, Joseph Hidley painted scenes of his surroundings, mostly in oil on wood. He painted views of the village of Poestenkill, showing the main crossroads and features of the village.
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