Louis Rémy Mignot (artist)

Louis Rémy Mignot was a 19th-century American painter. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He was the only Southerner among the Hudson River School. Hudson River School painters created detailed, realistic-looking landscapes. Their art was influenced by romanticism, an art movement that encouraged the appreciation of nature. Mignot joined fellow painter Frederic Church on a four month trip to Ecuador in 1857. Church focused on painting the Andes mountains, while Mignot was drawn to the low-horizon river landscapes. He created many travel sketches during this trip that he later used to compose landscape paintings. Following the outbreak of the Civil War in the United States, Mignot raised money by selling his artwork and moved to England in 1862. He set up an art studio in London and traveled between London and Paris to work and exhibit. His work was accepted into the 1870 Paris Salon. Mignot fled France in 1870, at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War. He went back to England and died from smallpox at age 39.