Edward Beyer

Edward Beyer 1820-1865, was a noted German pastoral and landscape artist of the Antebellum Era (1781–1860) and an artist of the American Old South and New England. He was born in the Rhineland of Germany, and was a graduate of the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, or the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He first traveled to America in 1848, settling in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He visited Virginia in 1854 and stayed until about 1856 or 1857 sketching and painting a number of scenes that would appear in his "Album of Virginia", after the publication of which he returned to Germany.

In his painting of the Bellevue Plantation, the Roanoke, Virginia, homestead of the Andrew and Maria Lewis family, he depicts eight slaves working in a wheat field. "Working in the dramatic style of the Dusseldorf Academy, which emphasized atmosphere, action and drama..."

"Born in the Rhineland of Germany, Edward Beyer became a landscape painter of romantic pastoral views. His style combined lessons learned at the Dusseldorf Academy with Classicism and Romanticism. Some of his canvases were unusual because they had industrial scenes such as railroads crossing the landscape, which meant juxtaposing romanticism with jarring realism. Critics indicate he made these combinations successfully."

Red Sulphur Springs

• Natural bridge
• Harper's Ferry from Jefferson Rock
• Rockfish Gap and the Mountain House
• The high bridge near Farmville
• The drums. The tapestry Room. Weyers Cave
• Stribling Springs
• Burner's White Sulphur Spr. Shenandoah Co.
• White Sulphur Spring Montgomery
• View from the Peak of Otter
• View from the Hawks Nest
• Little tunnel near Shawsville, Va. & T.R.R.
• Old Sweet Springs
• Rockbridge Alum Spring
• Yellow Sulphur Springs
• Blue Sulphur Spring
• Falling Springs
• View from Gambles Hill
• Bullard Rock on the New River
• View's of Weyer's Cave
• Salt Sulphur Spring
• Red Sulphur Spring
• Salt Pond from the Salt Pond Knob
• Kanawha Fall
• U.S. Armory in Harpers Ferry
• Viaduct on Cheat River B & O.R.R.
• White Sulphur Springs
• Fauquier White Sulphur Springs
• Hot Springs
• Old Point Comfort. Hygeia Hotel
• View from Little Sewell Mountain
• James River Canal near the mouth of the North River
• View of the Peaks of Otter
• Red Sweet Springs
• Warm Springs.