Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Vollmering, Joseph

VOLLMERING, Joseph, artist, b. in Anholt, Westphalia, 27 Aug., 1810; d. in New York city, 24 Sept., 1887. He was a pupil of the academy in Amsterdam in 1826-'30, after which he travelled for several years in Germany. During 1835-'44 he studied with Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, and in 1847 he removed to the United States. He opened a studio in New York and was elected an associate member of the National academy in 1853. Among his works are “Indian Falls, near Cold Spring, N. Y.” (1848); “View on the Hudson”; “Holy Shrine at Sunset” (1852); “Study of Trees” (1865); “Sunset Landscape and Adirondack Mountains” (1869); “The Hudson from Garrison's”; and “New York from Weehawken Heights” (1872).