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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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Summer Landscape by Ferdinand von Wright, 1877

Academician / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This a reproduction of Ferdinand von Wright’s “Summer Landscape” of 1877.  The artist was from Finland and from the age of sixteen worked as an illustrator in Sweden.  He returned to his parents’ estate in 1844 when he was twenty-two years old and began a secluded life in which he produced many paintings.  In 1885 he was granted a pension by the government.  He continued to produce paintings until his death in 1908 despite suffering paralysis beginning in 1884.

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