Edward Beyer
American, 1820 - 1865
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British, born German, 1849 - 1914
BiographyEdward Beyer was born in Rhineland, Germany in about 1820. He studied at the Düsseldorf Academy before coming to America in 1848 or 1849 to work as a landscape and panorama painter. Beyer worked in Newark, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania before settling in Virginia, where he painted his most famous panoramas of the Virginia landscape. He died in Munich, Germany in 1865.