Lake George
after 1851
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 64.77 × 114.94 cm (25 1/2 × 45 1/4 in.) framed: 98.11 × 148.91 cm (38 5/8 × 58 5/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Josephine E. Harrison)
Accession Number
2014.136.120
About the Artist
John William Casilear · 1811–1893
John William Casilear, born on June 25, 1811, in New York City, began his artistic career as an engraver, apprenticed under the prominent Peter Maverick in 1826. He later studied painting under Asher B. Durand in 1831, forming a close friendship that profoundly shaped his path. Durand, influenced by Thomas Cole, introduced Casilear to landscape painting by the mid-1830s, transitioning him from ban...