Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West ... and subsequently fell into favor with the Hudson River School painters in ...

He is heavily influenced by the luminist style of painting popular among late 19th century American landscape artists. His work emphasizes the tranquility present in nature, and aims to invoke a ...

He was particularly influenced by the works of 19th-century landscape painters such as Albert Bierstadt ... including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, ...