Edward Moran was an English-born American painter who specialized in marine art. He is best known for his series of thirteen paintings on the maritime history of the United States.

Gottlieb Daniel Paul Weber was a German artist. Weber is known for his ethereal and timeless landscape paintings of early northeast America. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1848 and though he returned to Germany around 1860 his influence on American landscape painting was still felt for years.