Alexander Loemans

American (1816-1898)

Born in the Netherlands, landscape and genre painter Alexander Francois Loemans received his formal artistic training in France. Loemans emigrated from Europe to North America where he lived and painted in Minnesota, New York, Boston, Manitoba, Ontario and Vancouver. Loemans also traveled to the Peruvian Andes and the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Noted for his scenes created along the Hudson River or at St. Anthony Falls on the Minnesota River, his work shows a strong influence from Hudson River School artists Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Edwin Church. Loemans exhibited at the National Academy of Design in the 1870’s.

Loemens’ work is held in numerous permanent collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, Musee de Beaux Arts, Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, Greenville Museum of Art, South Carolina, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Maryland, and New Brunswick Museum, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario.