William Louis Sonntag Sr. 1

Fishing at the Lake

mid-19th Century

Summer Fishing Scene by Hudson River School artist John Carleton Wiggins (1848-1932) is oil on canvas and measures 12 x 20 inches. The painting is signed by Wiggins at the lower left...

Hudson River School artist William Richardson Tyler's (1825-1896) "Lake George," is oil on canvas and measures 8 x 13 inches. The painting is signed at the lower center and signed an...

Hudson River School artist Charles Wilson Knapp's (1823-1900) "Fisherman by a Brook" is oil on canvas and measures 24 x 20 inches. The work is signed by Knapp at the lower left. The ...

Hudson River School artist Ernest Parton's (1845-1933) "Trout Fishing," is oil on canvas, measures 11.25 x 15.75 inches, and is signed and dated 1871 at the lower left. The work is f...

A wonderful Autumn landscape likely of the Hudson River Valley by the revered American artist William Louis Sonntag (1822-1900). Sonntag was born near Pittsburgh, PA and moved to Cincinnati, OH in the 1840’s to study art. He studied for a brief time with G. Frankenstein at the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Art and his idealized paintings of American wilderness and visionary paintings of imagined European ruins were commercially successful. He traveled twice to Europe in the 1850’s to improve his skills, eventually settling in New York City. He joined the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited his works for forty years. His mature works identify him with the Hudson River School of landscape painters. A romantic and naturalistic painter of his surroundings, Sonntag also created idealized paintings of Roman ruins, recalling his European trips of earlier years. Sonntag was an Associate (1860) and Academician (1861) at the National Academy of Design, and a member of the American Watercolor Society, Artists Fund Society, and the American Art Union...

This 19th-century American School river landscape painting by an unknown artist embodies the essence of the era’s reverence for nature and the burgeoning national identity. These wor...

Wonderful Hudson River School oil on board of a fisherman in a peaceful River scene. Monogram and dated on reverse. 9.25" x 12.25" housed in a carved frame measuring 11.5" x 14.5".

A View from Picturesque America is a charming nineteenth-century American landscape inspired by the celebrated publication Picturesque America, edited by William Cullen Bryant and pu...

Oil on canvas by American artist Joseph Rusling Meeker, painted in 1877. This signed original work measures 12 x 14.25 inches and depicts an early autumn landscape of the American South, showing two boaters on a tranquil lake rendered in the Hudson River School tradition. Signed lower left. The scene is intimate and quietly luminous — warm autumnal light filters through the canopy and reflects off still water, with the two small figures lending the composition a sense of human scale against the enveloping natural world. Meeker brings to this modest-sized canvas the same romantic atmosphere and careful observation of light that defines his larger bayou paintings...

Beautiful Hudson river scene, landscape, painting Oil on canvas No visible signature Restored 19th century 22 x 34 unframed, 26.75 x 38.5 framed