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William Louis Sonntag, Sr. (1822-1900) was an American landscape painter. Born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1822 (), he traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio at the age of 21 and perfected his technique. Becoming an established and highly regarded landscape artist, he began making trips to Florence, Italy in 1853. Several of these trips were made with his friend Robert Scott Duncanson. In 1856, Sonntag permanently moved to New York to become a leading painter of Romantic landscapes of several scenes from his travels in Italy. Sonntag was a member of the group known as the Hudson River School. Some of his paintings go beyond the movement to a grandiose expression of Manifest Destiny. There is strong evidence that several of Sonntag's pieces were scenes he had seen from photographs only. ''Grand Canyon, Yellowstone River, Wyoming'', for example, is a landscape that Sonntag never traveled to. It is most likely based on a photograph taken by Frank Jay Haynes of the canyon in 1885.〔 ==Gallery== File:On_the_Potomac_Sonntag.jpg|''On the Potomac'', collection of Walters Art Museum File:Grand Canyon, Yellowstone River, Wyoming.jpg|''Grand Canyon, Yellowstone River, Wyoming'' collection of Birmingham Museum of Art 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William Louis Sonntag, Sr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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