JOSEPH RUSLING MEEKER Liebenstein and Sternenfels on the Rhine.
Oil on canvas, 1854. 655x890 mm; 25 3/4x35 inches. Signed, titled and dated in oil, verso.
Known for his water landscapes, Meeker was born at Newark, New Jersey, in 1827. During the Civil War he served as paymaster on a Union gun boat, patrolling the Mississippi Delta.
