Artists

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816, Schwäbisch Gmünd – July 18, 1868) was a German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. Biography Philadelphia Leutze was born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Württemberg (Germany), and was brought to America as a child. His parents settled first in Philadelphia,...

A famous French and American flower painter, Paul de Longpre was the most significant watercolor specialist to arrive in Los Angeles in the late 19th century and became the city's first major still-life painter. It is likely he was the first southern California painter to earn a major national reputation. He was born in Lyons, France, where he was...

William Hillock Low was a prominent force in the New York art world during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known primarily as a muralist, Low studied with the French neo-classicist painter, Jean-Léon-Gérôme during the 1870s. Although the artist created a number of works in the style of his teacher, he eventually expanded his...

Painter and illustrator Fernand Lungren is best known for vibrantly colored images of the scenic wonders of the American Southwest. Lungren was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, but grew up in Toledo, Ohio. In 1876, he abandoned his studies in mining engineering at the University of Michigan and went to Cincinnati. There, painters Alfred Laurens...

Little is known of Leganger except that he was active in both New York City and Boston.  He exhibited at the Brooklyn Art Association between 1871 and 1882.  He also exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1891, giving his address as Newton Center, MA.  His work was represented at an important sale of paintings at Noyes and Blakeslee in...