Henry Breuer was a well-known as a “painter of poetic landscapes.” Many of his paintings like Santa Barbara were the result of Breuer’s travels around the western United States. While living out of a horse-drawn wagon, he painted scenes from California, Oregon, and Arizona; his views of the San Gabriel Valley in California were exhibited at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition.
Born in Philadelphia, Breuer studied art in Buffalo, New York, and later served as art editor for the San Francisco Chronicle and the California Magazine. Breuer then traveled to Paris to continue his artistic studies, where he was influenced by the work of Barbizon and Impressionist painters.
