Lewis Henry Meakin
The English born Lewis Henry Meakin settled in Cincinnati in 1863. Often called the father of western art, he was considered one of the top landscape painters of his time. He studied at the McMicken School of design and at the Art Academy of Cincinnati under T. S. Noble. He went to Munich from 1882 to 1886 and studied with Nikolaus Gysis and Ludwig Loefftz. Meakin was one of the founders and later president of the Society of Western Artists. He was elected an Associate of the Naitonal Academy in 1913 and served on the jury for the Panama-Pacific Expostion in San Francisco. He was curator of painting at the Cincinnati Art Museum. He enjoyed painting in the out-of-doors and traveled widely in the summers. Today is respected for his fine, impressionist landscapes.