German-American painter Emanuel Leutze is born in Schwäbisch Gmünd, a village in southern Germany. Leutze, who moved to Pennsylvania as a child, studied art in Europe before returning to the United States where painted his most famous canvas, Washington Crossing the Delaware.
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