Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...
Who knew what, and when, from the start of the 19th Century on ... the countryside's once clear skies and untouched landscape was the British-American painter Thomas Cole (1801-1848).