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VOLLMERING, Joseph, artist, born in Anholt, Westphalia, 27 August, 1810; died in New York city, 24 September, 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, New York" (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).
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