Portrait of Wakara

This sepia watercolor-over-pencil picture is representative of the romantic landscapes and cityscapes for which Salomon Leonardus Verveer was best known. His work bridges the romantic tradition in…

This is the second version of First Class: The Meeting—And at First Meeting Loved painted by Abraham Solomon. A young man in naval uniform talks with an older man and a young woman, who sits near the…

Waiting for the Verdict depicts a despondent family sitting outside a courtroom, waiting for a verdict in the trial of a loved one. Through the door can be seen a judge and white-wigged lawyers…

People Pouring out of a Public Building into the Street is one of Friedrich Friedländer’s best-known works. In the mid-nineteenth century, as part of a trend in European art that was moving away from…

The Canal Street Market, built in 1829, was the largest and most popular market in Cincinnati, where artist Henry Mosler’s family settled after immigrating from Germany, when he was eight years old…

Aleksander Lesser’s most famous painting is The Funeral of the Five Victims, which depicts the public funeral of five men shot by the Russian military on March 2, 1861, during a rally calling for…