William louis sonntag biography definition

William Sonntag was one of the central figures of the Hudson River School. Primarily self-taught, his early landscapes were executed during painting excursions from Cincinnati to the Ohio River Valley and in Kentucky and West Virginia (1856 and 1859).

Born in East Liberty, Pennsylvania March 2, 1822, it is believed Sonntag studied for a short period with G.

Frankenstein at the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1840s.

William louis sonntag biography definition

By the 1860s, he was famous for his views of sky, earth and water and he painted in New England and upper state New York.

By 1851 Sonntag established a fine reputation as a competent landscape painter. He collaborated with John C.

Wolfe on a large panorama of Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained before he traveled to Italy and lived in Florence from 1855-1856. After his return from Europe in 1857, he settled in New York City, exhibited extensively and became known for his romantic American and Italian landscapes.

In 1869 his canvas The Blue Ridge fr