William Louis Sonntag (1822-1900)
Lived/Active: Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York

“A Woodland Pond with Deer”
Signed (l.r.): Sonntag.
Oil on canvas.
10 3/8” x 12 ¼”, 14 5/8” x 16 ¾” (with frame).
Over-all in excellent condition, lined. In a period carved, gilt frame.
William Sonntag was revered by his peers as one of America’s greatest landscape painters and considered a central figure of the Hudson River School. Believed to be mostly self-taught, his work was quite prolific and by 1851 Sonntag become known as a very competent landscape painter.