Robert S. Duncanson
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Robert Seldon Duncanson was a 19th-century American landscapist of European and African ancestry. Inspired by famous American landscape artists like Thomas Cole, Duncanson created renowned landscape p
Portrait of Duncanson
Land of the Lotus Eaters, 1861
Ellen's Isle, Loch Katrine, 1871
Vulture and Its Prey (1844)
William Louis Sonntag
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William Louis Sonntag Sr. was an American landscape painter.
Robert S. Duncanson
…in other parts of antebellum America. During the 19th century, Cincinnati and the American west became well known for its landscape artists, including William Louis Sonntag, Godfrey Frankenstein, T. Worthington Whittredge, and Duncanson himself. Robert Seldon Duncanson had no formal art education, and thus had to teach…
Shenandoah Valley, oil on canvas, William Louis Sonntag Sr., 1859–1860. Virginia Historical Society
Scene in the White Mountains, Brooklyn Museum
On the Potomac, Walters Art Museum
Autumn Morning on the Potomac, LACMA