For instance the landscape setting of Bingham's Fur Traders Descending the Missouri is very similar to, and as good as the landscape picture American Lake Scene (1844, Detroit Institute of Arts) by Thomas Cole (1801 - 48), leader of the Hudson River School of landscape painting. (visual-arts-cork.com)
He also makes the shore of the Galilean lake the scene of Peter's installation as «shepherd of Christ's sheep» (John 21.) (religion-online.org)