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In America. 657 The works of this artist are commonly seen in the public and private galleries of America. The City Hall, New York, has some good portraits by him ; noteworthy among these is that of Governor Van Buren : others are in the Boston Athenaeum. His landscapes and genre pictures are best seen in private galleries. William Sidney Mount (1806—1868), who has been called " the American Wilkie," was one of the first in that country to practise genre painting successfully. His works, such as The Long Story and Bargaining for a horse, display great sense of humour. Emmanuel Leutze (1816 — 1868), a native of Emingen in Wiirtemberg, went, when still young, with his father to America. He at first maintained himself by portrait paint- ing, but his favourite subjects were of an historic nature. His earliest work of note is an Indian gazing on the setting sun. In 1841 he determined to visit Europe. He arrived at Amsterdam early in the year, and thence went to Diisseldorf, where he studied under Lessing. His Columbus before the Council of Salamanca was purchased by the Art Union of that city. From Diisseldorf, Leutze went to Munich, and became the disciple of Cornelius and Kaul- bach. After his Wanderjahre through Italy and Switzer- land, he returned to America in 1859 and became justly famed as a painter of historic subjects. A picture of Western Emigration by him is in the Capitol at Washing- ton. Other good works by him are Washington crossing the Delaware and the Iconoclast. Shortly after Leutze had died, a letter came announcing his election to the president- ship of the Diisseldorf Academy, rendered vacant by the death of Lessing. Charles Loring Elliott (1812—1868) was a pupil of EHA U U