Washington Crossing the Delaware #19 Metal Print

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This is a reproduction of "Washington Crossing the Delaware" by Emanuel Leutze of 1851. This wonderful dramatic historical scene was first painted in 1849 and housed in the Bremen Kunsthalle. It was damaged by fire in 1850 and destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942. This version was painted in 1850 and put on display in New York in October, 1851. It was bought by Marshall O. Roberts and has been re-created and reproduced many times. The original of this version is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Emanuel Leutze was a Germany artist who was thirty-three when he first painted this scene. Brought to America as a child, he early began to paint portraits and supported himself with them after his father died when he was fourteen. He obtained sufficient orders when he was twenty-four to study in Dusseldorf and established his reputation in Europe in the following years. He settled in Dusseldorf where he lived for fourteen years. He returned to America in 1859 and gained a wide reputation as a...

Troy Caperton was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1949. Raised in South Louisiana from 1953, he graduated from Baylor University in 1976 and pursued a Masters in History at the University of Louisiana until 1988 when he moved to Austin, Texas. For over ten years Caperton has been selling his original art and reproductions of original work and the masters through various portals on the Internet. One of his works won a Juror’s Prize at Austin’s Art Erotica in 2010. He has always been employed in helping positions and continues to produce works for the enjoyment of the public.