William louis sonntag biography of william shakespeare

          William Sonntag is an American artist who is best known for his landscape paintings....

          Published in by Goldfield Galleries, this book provides a comprehensive reference guide on the artist's work.

        1. Published in by Goldfield Galleries, this book provides a comprehensive reference guide on the artist's work.
        2. William Shakespeare: The Biography of an English Poet and his dedication to Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and more (Artists) [New].
        3. William Sonntag is an American artist who is best known for his landscape paintings.
        4. Title: The Round Table Characters of Shakespeare's Plays.
        5. William Louis Sonntag Jr. ( - American) "Landscape with Wrecked Boat" watercolor on paper signed lower left "S.

          6. William Sonntag was one of the central figures of the Hudson River School. Primarily self-taught, his early landscapes were executed during painting excursions from Cincinnati to the Ohio River Valley and in Kentucky and West Virginia (1856 and 1859).

          Born in East Liberty, Pennsylvania March 2, 1822, it is believed Sonntag studied for a short period with G.

          Frankenstein at the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1840s. By the 1860s, he was famous for his views of sky, earth and water and he painted in New England and upper state New York.

          By 1851 Sonntag established a fine reputation as a competent landscape painter.

          He collaborated with John C. Wolfe on a large panorama of Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained before he traveled to Italy and lived in Florence from 1855-1856. After his return from Europe in 1857, he settled in New York City, exhibited extensively and became known for his romantic American and Italian landscapes.

          In 1869 his canvas The Blue Ridge fr