Moat Mountain, Intervale, New Hampshire, by Albert Bierstadt, c. 1862, oil on canvas - Currier Museum of Art - Manchester, NH - DSC07512

Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) was an American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. To paint the scenes, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century.