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Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (''. It is owned by the Metropolitan Museum Of Art , in New York . His first work, '' Columbus Before The Council Of Salamanca '' was purchased by the Düsseldorf Art Union . A strong supporter of Europe's Revolutions Of 1848 , Leutze decided to paint an image that would encourage Europe's liberal reformers with the example of the American Revolution. Using American tourists and art students as models and assistants, Leutze finished '' Washington Crossing The Delaware '' in 1850. In 1859, Leutze painted a portrait of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney which hangs in the Harvard Law School . In a 1992 opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia described the portrait of Taney, made two years after Taney's infamous decision in Dred Scott V. Sanford , as showing Taney "in black, sitting in a shadowed red armchair, left hand resting upon a pad of paper in his lap, right hand hanging limply, almost lifelessly, beside the inner arm of the chair. He sits facing the viewer and staring straight out. There seems to be on his face, and in his deep-set eyes, an expression of profound sadness and disillusionment." In 1860 Leutze was commissioned by the U.S. Congress to decorate a stairway in the Capitol Building in Washington, DC , for which he painted a large composition, '' Westward The Course Of Empire Takes Its Way ''. Late in life, he became a member of the National Academy Of Design . He was also a member of the Union League Club Of New York , which has a number of his paintings. He died in Washington, D.C. in his 53rd year. Leutze's portraits are known less for their artistic quality than for their patriotic emotionalism. Both named works firmly rank among the American national Iconography , and are thus often caricatured. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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