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Birth
1822 (East Liberty, Pennsylvania)
Death
1900 (New York City)
Lived/Active
Ohio/New York
Often Known For
wilderness landscape painting, often allegorical
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Hudson River School Painters
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A native of East Liberty, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, William Sonntag
was a landscape painter associated with the Hudson River School.
He is best remembered for his romantic depictions of the American
wilderness and "idealized visions of classical Italian ruins" that
"reflect the influence of the eighteenth-century neoclassical tradition
of English literature and painting" (Zellman, 195).
He pursued
his art career despite parental objections, and in the 1840s moved to
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