Lewis Edward Herzog

His father, Hermann Ottomar Herzog, was a well known German-American landscape painter, originally from Bremen, who moved his family to Philadelphia after Lewis's birth.

Lewis Herzog travelled extensively, visiting London, Rome, Berlin and Munich, until 1888, when he enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

There, he studied with Heinrich Lauenstein, Adolf Schill, Hugo Crola, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen and the engraver, Carl Ernst Forberg.

[4] Unlike his father, whose landscapes largely remained in the classical Dusseldorf and Hudson River School tradition, Lewis incorporated a more impressionist style.

Back in the United States, in 1898, Lewis held an exhibition of his European paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.