A painter and illustrator born in New York, John Ehninger graduated from Columbia College, New York, in 1847. He immediately departed for Europe to pursue artistic training. He visited Italy and France, but staying in Germany, specifically Düsseldorf, was his main objective.There he studied with Karl Friedrich Lessing, Carl Ferdinand Sohn and fellow American Emanuel Leutze, and in Paris he was instructed by Thomas Couture.
During the early 1850s, he travelled between America and Europe bu (showing 500 of 1496 characters). |
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