Charles Wilson Knapp

Valley River

A wonderful Autumn landscape likely of the Hudson River Valley by the revered American artist William Louis Sonntag (1822-1900). Sonntag was born near Pittsburgh, PA and moved to Cincinnati, OH in the 1840’s to study art. He studied for a brief time with G. Frankenstein at the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Art and his idealized paintings of American wilderness and visionary paintings of imagined European ruins were commercially successful. He traveled twice to Europe in the 1850’s to improve his skills, eventually settling in New York City. He joined the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited his works for forty years. His mature works identify him with the Hudson River School of landscape painters. A romantic and naturalistic painter of his surroundings, Sonntag also created idealized paintings of Roman ruins, recalling his European trips of earlier years. Sonntag was an Associate (1860) and Academician (1861) at the National Academy of Design, and a member of the American Watercolor Society, Artists Fund Society, and the American Art Union...

A fine Connecticut river landscape by American Hudson River artist John William Casilear (1811-1893). Casilear was born in New York City, began his study with master engraver Peter M...

A fine New England landscape with a cart path and birch tree by Swedish-American artist Theodore Victor Carl Valenkamph (1868-1924). Valenkamph was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and emi...

A fine mountainous winter landscape by American artist Arthur Clifton Goodwin (1864-1929). Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Goodwin lived and worked most of his life in Massachuset...

This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. In Bluebell Morning, Rory J Browne brings the quiet grandeur o...

This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. The Shore by Olga Calado captures the fleeting moment when the ...

This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. In Maida Vale, Jonathan Stewardson beautifully captures a Londo...

"Oats and Poppy" is an Impressionist painting of a field of wild poppies and oats. Painted en plein air. Unframed Signed at bottom Artist's statement: Even as a child of 2, I had a...