. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . essor of the painterLeslie as Professor of Drawing in the United States Military Academy atWest Point. His works are principally historical and genre. Among themare Columbus before the Council of Salamanca,1 The Embarkation of thePilgrims, Christ and Nicodemus, The Landing of Hendrik Hudson, Pa3stum by Moonlight, View of the Hudson from West Point, and Childs Evening Prayer. One of his latest pictures is a delightful cabinetmarine, in the possession of Mr. Isaac Henderson, Jr. Mr. Alexander H. Wyant, the landscape
. American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood . essor of the painterLeslie as Professor of Drawing in the United States Military Academy atWest Point. His works are principally historical and genre. Among themare Columbus before the Council of Salamanca,1 The Embarkation of thePilgrims, Christ and Nicodemus, The Landing of Hendrik Hudson, Pa3stum by Moonlight, View of the Hudson from West Point, and Childs Evening Prayer. One of his latest pictures is a delightful cabinetmarine, in the possession of Mr. Isaac Henderson, Jr. Mr. Alexander H. Wyant, the landscape-painter, was born in Port Wash-ington, Ohio, in 1839. For several years he was a sign-painter in that removed to Cincinnati and painted some pictures, which commended them-selves to the art-patrons of the city, and brought him money enough to go toEurope with. At Diisseldorf he studied under the direction of Hans Gude,and became slightly acquainted with Lessing—a strange, silent man, hegays, wlio, when I called on him, sent his portfolio to me, and went off into. h < a a hWK aa S g D en Q i < ^ ^ ALEXANDER IT. WYANT. 165 the woods shooting. The Diisseldorf school seems to have made no impres-sion upon the young artist. He held his sympathies in reserve until he sawthe landscapes of Constable and Turner in London. He returned to America,opened a studio in New York, and contributed to the Academy Exhibition of1865 some scenes in the valley of the Ohio River. In 1868 he was elected anAssociate of that institution, and in 1869 an Academician, when he exhibitedhis View on the Upper Susquehanna. The Adirondack^ are his favoriteresort; he speaks enthusiastically of the rich hues of the Northern Midsummer Retreat and On the Ausable River are studies of Adi-rondack scenery. Mr. Wyants landscapes in recent years have received a great deal of atten-tion and intelligent admiration, and the spectator who appreciates them wouldthink it almost incredible that their
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