Emanuel Leutze

1816–1868 · Romanticism

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze was a German-born American history painter, best known for his 1851 painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. He is associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

25 paintings

• The Summons (1856)
• A Cardinal and his Entourage in a Park (1859)
• The Departure of Columbus from Palos, Spain, in 1492 (1865)
• Die Bernsteinkette (1847)
• General Ambrose Burnside at Antietam (1863)
• Signing of the Alaska Treaty (1867)
• Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth (1857)
• Worthington Whittredge (1856)
• Bird Nesting (1837)
• The Countess (1838)
• The Courtship of Anne Boleyn (1846)
• James Barnett Dodson (1837)
• Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (mural study, U.S. Capitol) (1861)
• Mrs. Schuyler Burning Her Wheat Fields on the Approach of the British (1852)
• Worthington Whittredge in His Tenth Street Studio (1865)
• Nathaniel Hawthorne (1862)
• Nathan Flint Baker (1845)
• Portrait of a Man (1851)
• Columbus Before the Queen (1843)
• Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851)
• The Storming of Teocalli by Cortez and his Troops (1848)
• Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth (1851)
• Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (1862)
• Christopher Columbus Before the Council of Salamanca (1841)
• William Morris Hunt (1845)