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REINAGLE, Hugh, artist, born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, about 1790; died near New Orleans, Louisiana, in May, 1834. He
studied under John J. Holland, and became known as a landscape-painter, working
in oil and water-colors.
For many years he was engaged as a scene-painter in New
York, and produced also a panorama of New York, which was exhibited in that
city. In 1830 he went to New Orleans, where he died of cholera four years later.
He was one of the original thirty members of the
National Academy of Design, and exhibited there, in 1831, a "View of the Falls
of Mount Ida." His "Macdonough's Victory on Lake Champlain" was engraved by
Benjamin Tanner in 1816.
Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, by John Looby Copyright © 2001 StanKlos.comTM
REINAGLE, Hugh, artist, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, about 1790 ; died near New Orleans, Louisiana, in May, 1834. He studied under John J. Holland, and became known as a landscape-painter, working in oil and water-colors. For many years he was engaged as a scene-painter in New York, and produced also a panorama of New York, which was exhibited in that city. In 1830 he went to New Orleans, where he died of cholera four years later. He was one of the original thirty members of the National academy of design, and exhibited there, in 1831, a "View of the Falls of Mount Ida." His " Macdonough's Victory on Lake Champlain" was engraved by Benjamin Tanner in 1816.