Description of Photograph: black and white photograph of Sonntag who sometimes worked as an illustrator. He is best known as a landscape painter, however.
William Louis Sonntag, Sr. (1822-1900) was an American landscape painter. Born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1822 , he traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio
at the age of 21 and perfected his technique. Becoming an established
and highly regarded landscape artist, he began making trips to Florence,
Italy in 1853. Several of these trips were made with his friend Robert Scott Duncanson. In 1856, Sonntag permanently moved to New York to become a leading painter of Romantic landscapes of several scenes from his travels in Italy. Sonntag was a member of the group known as the Hudson River School. Some of his paintings go beyond the movement to a grandiose expression of Manifest Destiny.
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