Erik Koeppel

Mt. Washington Emerging From the Clouds

2025

This luminous New Hampshire White Mountain oil painting of Mount Chocorua at twilight was painted by contemporary American artist William R. Davis (195...

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 landscape painting with birch trees and wildflowers by American artist Ernest Parton (1845-1933). Parton was born in Hudson, New York, and in his teenage years, began to accom...

An exceptional tonalist landscape of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California by Scottish American artist William Keith (1838-1911). Keith was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and came to New York with his family and apprenticed to a wood engraver. In 1859, he moved to San Francisco where he worked for an engraver and later set up his own engraving business. Studying with Samuel Marsden Brookes in 1863, he was determined to become a painter. He married artist Elizabeth Emerson and did watercolor painting with her guidance. In 1868, he became a full-time painter, and that same year was commissioned to paint scenes along the Columbia River including Mount Hood. By August 1869 he had sold enough paintings to finance an extended journey to the East Coast and Europe including Dusseldorf, Germany throughout most of 1870, studying with Albert Flamm...

Painted by Hudson River School artist William G. Boardman (1815-1895), "White Mountains in New Hampshire" is oil on canvas and measures 28 1/8 x 38 inches. The painting is signed and...

William L. Sonntag (American, 1822-1900) Connor's Brook, Maine Oil on canvas Signed lower right 20 x 31 inches 24.5 x 35.5 inches, framed William Louis Sonntag was born to a family ...

Leading Hudson River School Painter Famous for New England Views.

This atmospheric 19th-century oil painting by George H. McCord (1848–1909) depicts a wooded riverbank under a dynamic sky, rendered with the crisp naturalism and luminist subtlety as...