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LEUTZE, EMANUEL (18161868)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 505 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LEO-LOB
LEUTZE, EMANUEL (18161868) , American artist, was born at Gmiind, \Vurttemberg, on the 24th of May 1816, and as a child was taken by his parents to Philadelphia, where he early displayed talent as an artist. At the age of twenty-five he had earned enough to take him to Dusseldorf for a course of art study a t the royal
academy
 . Almost immediately he began the painting of historical subjects, his first
work
 , " Columbus before the Council of Salamanca," being purchased by the Dusseldorf Art Union. In 186o he was commissioned by the United States Congress to decorate a stairway in the Capitol at Washington, for which he painted a large composition, " Westward the
Star
  of Empire takes its Way." His best-known
work
 , popular through engraving, is " Washington crossing the
Delaware
 ," a large canvas containing a score of life-sized figures; it is now owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York
 . He became a member of the National
Academy
  of
Design
  in 186o, and died at Washington, D.C., on the 18th of July 1868.
LEVALLOIS-PERRET, a north-western suburb of Paris, on the right bank of the Seine, 21 M. from the centre of the city. Pop. (1906) 61,419. It carries on the manufacture of motor-cars and accessories, carriages, groceries, liqueurs, perfumery, soap, &c., and has a port on the Seine.


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