Gilbert Munger. Gilbert Munger was a late 19th-century American landscape painter whose romantic yet topographically accurate landscapes helped to introduce the newly opened West to the American public.
Gilbert Davis Munger was born on April 14, 1837, in Madison, Connecticut, to Sherman and Lucretia Munger, the last of five children. He was a distant cousin of the American engraver and artist George Munger.
When he evinced artistic talent at an early age, his family sent him to Washington, D.C., at the age of just 13 to apprentice with William H. Dougal, who was then senior engraver at the Smithsonian Institution. Among his tasks was to produce engravings for government reports, and he turned out plates of animals, birds, fish, reptiles, and plants related to the scientific work of Louis Agassiz and the explorations of Commodore Charles Wilkes.
As a painter, however, he was largely self-taught and was inspired in the development of his style by reading the work of John Ruskin and studying the painters of the Hudson River School. During this period of his life, he began to make friends with other artists, including John Mix Stanley and John Ross Key.
Munger served in the Union Army as a military engineer helping to build the fortifications around Washington, D.C., during the Civil War. After the war he moved to New York, but he also began to spend time in the West as two of his brothers had set
Gilbert Davis Munger was born on April 14, 1837, in Madison, Connecticut, to Sherman and Lucretia Munger, the last of five children. He was a distant cousin of the American engraver and artist George Munger.
When he evinced artistic talent at an early age, his family sent him to Washington, D.C., at the age of just 13 to apprentice with William H. Dougal, who was then senior engraver at the Smithsonian Institution. Among his tasks was to produce engravings for government reports, and he turned out plates of animals, birds, fish, reptiles, and plants related to the scientific work of Louis Agassiz and the explorations of Commodore Charles Wilkes.
As a painter, however, he was largely self-taught and was inspired in the development of his style by reading the work of John Ruskin and studying the painters of the Hudson River School. During this period of his life, he began to make friends with other artists, including John Mix Stanley and John Ross Key.
Munger served in the Union Army as a military engineer helping to build the fortifications around Washington, D.C., during the Civil War. After the war he moved to New York, but he also began to spend time in the West as two of his brothers had set
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