A townscape and landscape painter, H.M.T. Powell went West with a wagon train from Illinois, arriving in San Diego in December, 1849. There he opened an art school and did drawings of the missions at San Diego and San Luis Rey. He was also a portrait painter and did some of the earliest known views of Los Angeles.
He moved onto Northern California where he remained active until 1860s. He wrote and illustrated his day by day diary Santa Fe Trail to California, pub (showing 500 of 1634 characters). |
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