A landscape painter, Louis Remy Mignot was among the Hudson River School style of painters and did numerous tropical landscapes of Panama and Ecuador as well as scenes of upper New York state and some of the Southern states. He was short lived, dying at age 39.

Mignot was born in 1831 in Charleston, South Carolina. His father Remy Mignot was a French Catholic immigrant who owned a confectionary shop in Charleston His boyhood, during which he demonstrated a precocious artistic talent, seems to have been spent in his grandfather's home, near Charleston.

In 1848 he left for Holland and studied for four years with Andreas Schelfhout at The Hague. He also traveled through Europe before he retu...