New York Street at Dusk
“Louis Michel Eilshemius had the right background to become an establishment painter. Born to a wealthy family in New Jersey in 1864, he was educated in Europe and then Cornell University. After persuading his father to let him enroll in the Art Students League and pursue painting, he returned to live at his family’s Manhattan brownstone at 118 East 57th Street.His early work earned notoriety and was selected for exhibition at the National Academy of Design in the 1880s. ‘Eilshemius’s early artistic style was rooted in lessons he gleaned from his studies abroad, specifically the landscape aesthetics of the Barbizon School and French impressionism,’ states the National Gallery of Art. ...”
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