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BIERSTADT, ALBERT (1830-1902)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 921 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BIERSTADT, See also:ALBERT (1830-1902) , See also:American landscape painter, was See also:born in See also:Solingen, See also:Westphalia, See also:Germany, on the 7th of See also:January 1830, and was taken to the See also:United States when about a See also:year old. In 1853-1856 he studied See also:painting at See also:Dusseldorf. His pictures of the western See also:part of the United States, and particularly the Rocky Mountains, made him widely popular. His " Estes See also:Park, See also:Colorado," is in the collection of the See also:earl of Dunraven; his " Sierra See also:Nevada " (1878) is in the Corcoran See also:Gallery in See also:Washington, and " The Valley of See also:Yosemite " in the See also:James See also:Lenox collection in New See also:York. He received many See also:German and See also:Austrian decorations, and was a See also:chevalier of the See also:French See also:Legion of See also:Honour. He rendered panoramic views with a certain ability, though his See also:work was rather topographically correct and impressive than See also:artistic in conception and See also:execution. He was a member of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design of New York, and is represented by two See also:historical paintings, " The See also:Discovery of the See also:Hudson See also:River," and " The See also:Settlement of See also:California," in the Capitol in Washington, D.C. He died in New York See also:City on the 18th of See also:February 1902.

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