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Mouth of the Delaware, Thomas Birch

American / British / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Mouth of the Delaware” of 1828 by Thomas Birch.  The painting depicts the mouth of the Delaware at either Deepwater Point or Cape Henlopen.  There are storm clouds from the sea and the topsail schooner is going to sea despite the weather.  A merchant ship moves upriver towards the right while two sailors furl sails in response to the rising wind.  The fishing dingy is being rowed towards the shore by four oarsmen.  The forty-nine year old Thomas Birch had been born in London and had been in the United States since 1794.  He died in Philadelphia on January 3, 1851.  The original painting is 30 inches by 20 inches and is in the White House, Washington, D. C.

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Washington Crossing the Delaware, Emanuel Leutze, 1851

American / German / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Washington Crossing the Delaware” by Emanuel Leutze of 1851.  This wonderful dramatic historical scene was first painted in 1849 and housed in the Bremen Kunsthalle.  It was damaged by fire in 1850 and destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942.  This version was painted in 1850 and put on display in New York in October, 1851.  It was bought by Marshall O. Roberts and has been re-created and reproduced many times.  The original of this version is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Emanuel Leutze was a Germany artist who was thirty-three when he first painted this scene.  Brought to America as a child, he early began to paint portraits and supported himself with them after his father died when he was fourteen.  He obtained sufficient orders when he was twenty-four to study in Dusseldorf and established his reputation in Europe in the following years.  He settled in Dusseldorf where he lived for fourteen years.  He returned to America in 1859 and gained a wide reputation as a creation of works of patriotic emotionalism.  He died in Washington, D.C. in 1868.

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