Romantic Landscape

Charles Volkmar, Sr. was a German-born artist who had settled in Baltimore by the early 1840s. In August 1849, John Ridgely’s Memorandum Book records, “Pd. Charles Volkmar…$127.00,” probably for this large landscape view which appears to be set in Europe. While traveling in Paris a generation later, the Ridgelys also bought landscapes painted by Volkmar’s son, Charles Volkmar, Jr. These works were displayed in Hampton’s Music Room upon their return.

Hampton National Historic Site
Towson, Maryland