Albert Bierstadt, American, 1830 to 1902, pastel painting on board depicting a seascape with a ship, 1897. Signed with a monogram and dated, lower left. Framed. Albert Bierstadt is known for Romanticized western landscape paintings, photography. Likely the most famous and financially successful late 19th century painter of the American western landscape, Albert Bierstadt created grandiose, dramatic scenes of the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevadas that lured many people to visit those sites. He was also one of the first artists to use a camera to record landscape views. His oil paintings, many of them huge, were the ultimate expression of the popular 19th century Romanticism. One of a kind artwork.