Sunday, April 8 at 3 pm at the Atkinson Museum at Hampden-Sydney College Central Virginia Arts will present a lecture by Jeffrey Ruggles on Edward Beyer and the Jeffersonian Landscape.

The artist Edward Beyer came to the U.S. from Germany after the Revolution of 1848. For several years Beyer, a graduate of the Dusseldorf Academy, traveled around the northeast U. S. and Ohio, sketching, painting oil landscapes, and exhibiting a moving panorama. In the mid 1850s he traveled to Virginia where he made panoramic oils in the western part of the state. For a number of towns Beyer’s view remains the best single historical representation. In 1857-58 he produced Album of Virginia, a portfolio of 41 lithographic views. In the Album, especially Beyer’s vision was that of a European liberal who saw the world as a Jeffersonian idealist.

Jeffrey Juggles is an Art Historian who works at Virginia Center on Aging, Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds a BA from University of Virginia and a MFA in Design/Photography from Virginia Commonwealth University.