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Description: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868) was a German American history painter best-known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware. In 1860 Leutze was commissioned by the U.S. Congress to decorate a stairway in the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, for which he painted a large composition, Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, which is also commonly known as Westward Ho!. The painting is a study for the mural. It celebrates the idea of the Manifest Destiny at the time when the Civil War threatened the republic.
Title: Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way Alternative title(s): Westward Ho! 
Credit: Own photograph of painting in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC,
Author: Emanuel Leutze
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