Emanuel gottlieb leutze (may 24, 1816 – july 18, 1868) was a german-american history painter best known for his painting washington crossing the delaware (1851). In 1860 he was commissioned by the u. S. Congress to decorate a stairway in the capitol building in washington, d. C. , for which he painted this preliminary study for the large composition, westward the course of empire takes its way, also commonly known as westward ho! it celebrates the idea of the manifest destiny at the time when the civil war threatened the republic. Object Type: painting. Date: 1861. Place of creation: United States of America. Dimensions: height: 33.2 in (84.4 cm); width: 43.3 in (110.1 cm). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum. Westward (Leutze)
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