From Schwabisch Gmünd

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

Born in Germany, grew up in Philadelphia, studied and worked in Düsseldorf, 1840–59, before settling in the United States. Popular history painter of large, dramatic scenes such asWashington Crossing the Delaware(1851) andWestward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way(1861–1862).Charles Sullivan, edAmerican Beauties: Women in Art and Literature(New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993)