Louis M. Eilshemius

Born in New Jersey, studied in Europe, 1873–81, settled in New York City. Idiosyncratic painter who called himself a "Transcendental Eagle of the Arts" but whose increasingly subjective pictures received little attention during his lifetime.Charles Sullivan, edAmerican Beauties: Women in Art and Literature(New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993)