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The expansive luminous spaces in the well-crafted landscapes by Eugène Gustav Dücker are typical of late 19th-century academic art. The artist, born in Germany and trained at the academies of St. Petersburg and Moscow, was highly successful in his own lifetime but has largely been forgotten today. John D. Lankenau must have paid a generous price for these and other similar paintings when he purchased them. Lankenau, who later started the hospital system that still bears his name, was married to Mary Johanna Drexel, A. J. Drexel’s sister.