William Louis Sonntag (1822-1900)

Aliases: William Louis (1822) Sonntag; W. L. Sontag; William Louis Sontag

Professions: Landscape painter

• 

  

  * WILLIAM LOUIS SONNTAG 1822-1900 OR 1916 EARLY AUTUMN MORNING, WESTERN VIRGINIA

• 

  

  William Louis Sonntag 1822-1900 , Autumn Landscape oil on canvas

• 

  

  Mountain Landscape

• 

  

  William Louis Sonntag

• William Louis Sonntag Related Content
• William Louis Sonntag at Auction Now
• William Louis Sonntag Sold at Auction

William Louis Sonntag Biography

(b East Liberty, PA, 2 March 1822; d New York, 22 Jan 1900). American painter. Born the son of a merchant in a suburb of Pittsburgh, he moved to Cincinnati at an early age. Despite his father’s opposition, he began a career as an itinerant landscape painter in the mid-1840s, selling paintings and sketches throughout the Ohio Valley. An exhibition of his work, held in a store, won him a commission in 1846 from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to paint a series of views along its route. In 1855 Sonntag travelled to Italy to study in Florence for a year, a journey that resulted in Classic Italian Landscape with Temple of Venus (c . 1860; Washington, DC, Corcoran Gal. A.). He lived permanently in New York after 1860, and by 1862 he was a full academician at the National Academy of Design there.

Back to the Top

William Louis Sonntag Related Content

• Auction Houses

  Genres/Artists

• Featured Houses (25)

  • Barridoff Galleries
  • Bonhams
  • Charlton Hall
  • Dallas Auction Gallery
  • Doyle New York
  • DuMouchelles
  • Eldred's
  • Freeman's
  • Grogan & Company
  • Heritage Auctions
  • James D. Julia
  • John Moran Auctioneers
  • Kaminski Auctions
  • Keno Auctions
  • Leland Little
  • Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
  • Neal Auction Company
  • Northeast Auctions
  • Phillips de Pury & Company
  • Potomack Company
  • Shannon's
  • Skinner
  • South Bay Auctions Inc
  • Stair Galleries
  • The Cobbs
  • Other Houses (24)
  • Bonhams
  • Butterfield, Butterfield & Dunning
  • CRN Auctions
  • Christie's
  • Christies East
  • Cowan's Auctions
  • Dawson & Nye
  • Deutscher Menzies
  • Frank Boos
  • Jackson's International
  • Lawrences
  • Litchfield Auction Gallery
  • Michaan's Auctions
  • Morton Goldberg Galleries
  • Patrick Thomas & Partners
  • Phillips
  • Pook and Pook
  • Sloan's Auction Galleries, Ltd.
  • Sotheby's
  • Sothebys Arcade
  • Stamford Auction
  • Wiederseim Associates
  • Wolfs
  • Young Fine Arts Auctions

• Hudson River School (64)

  • Washington Allston
  • Henry Ary
  • William Bliss Baker
  • Julie Hart Beers
  • Albert Bierstadt
  • Thomas Birch
  • William Russell Birch
  • William G Boardman
  • Alfred Thompson Bricher
  • John Bunyan Bristol
  • Albertus Del Orient Browere
  • George Loring Brown
  • Harrison Bird Brown
  • Johann Hermann Carmiencke
  • John William Casilear
  • Thomas Chambers
  • Frederic Edwin Church
  • Edmund C Coates
  • Thomas Cole
  • Samuel Colman
  • Jasper Francis Cropsey
  • Thomas Doughty
  • Robert Scott Duncanson
  • Asher Brown Durand
  • Henry Augustus Ferguson
  • George Fuller
  • Samuel Lancaster Gerry
  • Charles Henry Gifford
  • Robert Swain Gifford
  • Sanford Robinson Gifford
  • Regis-Francois Gignoux
  • James McDougal Hart
  • William Hart
  • Martin Johnson Heade
  • Hermann Ottomar Herzog
  • George Hetzel
  • Thomas Hill
  • Ransome Gillet Holdredge
  • James Hope
  • Richard William Hubbard
  • Daniel P. Huntington
  • George Inness
  • David Johnson
  • William Keith
  • John Frederick Kensett
  • Homer Dodge Martin
  • Jervis McEntee
  • Louis Remy Mignot
  • Charles Herbert Moore
  • Arthur Parton
  • Thomas Addison Richards
  • William Trost Richards
  • Horace Wolcott Jr. Robbins
  • Frederick Rondel
  • Thomas Prichard Rossiter
  • Aaron Draper Shattuck
  • Francis Augustus Silva
  • James Augustus Suydam
  • James Crawford Thom
  • Jerome B Thompson
  • Paul Weber
  • John Ferguson Weir
  • Worthington Whittredge
  • Alexander Helwig Wyant

• Luminism: American (23)

  • Albert Bierstadt
  • Alfred Thompson Bricher
  • John William Casilear
  • Frederic Edwin Church
  • Samuel Colman
  • Jasper Francis Cropsey
  • Robert Scott Duncanson
  • James Fairman
  • Charles Henry Gifford
  • Sanford Robinson Gifford
  • Regis-Francois Gignoux
  • Martin Johnson Heade
  • Hermann Ottomar Herzog
  • George Inness
  • John Frederick Kensett
  • Fitz Hugh Lane
  • Homer Dodge Martin
  • Louis Remy Mignot
  • William Trost Richards
  • Francis Augustus Silva
  • James Augustus Suydam
  • Julian Alden Weir
  • Worthington Whittredge

• White Mountain School (65)

  • Henry Ary
  • Jonathan Badger Bachelder
  • Gamaliel Waldo Beaman
  • Albert Bierstadt
  • Thomas Birch
  • DeWitt Clinton Boutelle
  • Alfred Thompson Bricher
  • John Bunyan Bristol
  • George Loring Brown
  • Harrison Bird Brown
  • Frederick A Butman
  • John William Casilear
  • Benjamin Champney
  • Frederic Edwin Church
  • George Lafayette Clough
  • Edmund C Coates
  • Charles Codman
  • Thomas Cole
  • Samuel Colman
  • Delbert Dana Coombs
  • Thomas Bigelow Craig
  • Jasper Francis Cropsey
  • Thomas Doughty
  • Asher Brown Durand
  • James Fairman
  • Henry Augustus Ferguson
  • Alvan Fisher
  • Samuel Lancaster Gerry
  • Sanford Robinson Gifford
  • Samuel W Griggs
  • William Hart
  • Martin Johnson Heade
  • Hermann Ottomar Herzog
  • Thomas Hill
  • George Inness
  • David Johnson
  • William Keith
  • John Frederick Kensett
  • Nikolay Tysland Leganger
  • Homer Dodge Martin
  • George McConnell
  • Jervis McEntee
  • Benjamin Tupper Newman
  • George E Niles
  • John Clinton Ogilvie
  • Alfred T Ordway
  • William Preston Phelps
  • Thomas Addison Richards
  • William Trost Richards
  • Daniel Santry
  • John White Allen Scott
  • Frank Henry Shapleigh
  • Aaron Draper Shattuck
  • George Henry Smillie
  • James David Smillie
  • James H Smillie
  • Otto Sommer
  • Franklin Stanwood
  • James Augustus Suydam
  • Alfred Wordsworth Thompson
  • Jerome B Thompson
  • Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott
  • John Ferguson Weir
  • Worthington Whittredge
  • Alexander Helwig Wyant

Back to the Top