Chapter 30

EMMANUEL LEUTZE.

An American by adoption--Early life and education--How he learned to draw--Becomes an artist--His first picture--The evils of too much haste--His first professional engagement--Despondency--A ramble through the Virginia woods, and what came of it--A friend in need--Greater success--Friendship of Mr. Carey--Leutze goes to Europe--Studies at Dusseldorf-His reception there--Becomes Lessing's pupil--His first picture finds a purchaser--Travels and studies in Europe--Returns to Dusseldorf, marries, and makes his home in that place--His paintings--Returns to New York--Success in America--The Government commission--Journey to the Rocky Mountains--The great fresco in the Capitol--"Westward the Star of Empire takes it Way"--Revisits Dusseldorf--Reception by the artists--Returns to the United States--Further commissions from the Government--His sudden death--His unfinished works--Mr. Tuckerman's remarks.

VIII. DIVINES.