“M” is for Mignot, Louis Rémy (1831-1870)

“M” is for Mignot, Louis Rémy (1831-1870). Painter. Mignot was born in Charleston. At the age of seventeen he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts at the Hague. In 1854 he returned to the United States and became actively involved in the New York Art World. In the manner of the Hudson River school painters, he went on sketching forays in the Catskill Mountains. He specialized in landscape painting. Mignot was one of the first tenants of the tenth Street Studio Building, the earliest American facility specifically designed for artists. In 1857 he made an expedition to Central and South America. From sketches obtained on this expedition he developed some of his most acclaimed canvases. Some scholars have maintained that Louis Rémy Mignot “was arguably the most accomplished southern-born painter of his generation.”