Louis Rémy Mignot

Louis Rémy Mignot was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and studied art in the Netherlands and New York. He traveled with Frederic Edwin Church to Ecuador in 1856, subsequently painting many South American scenes from the sketches he made on this trip. Mignot’s dramatic palette may reflect the new commercial pigments that became available in the 1850s. His detailed rendering reveals the influence of the British critic John Ruskin, who urged artists to study and depict nature faithfully.