November 22, 2007

Peter F. Rothermel – American Artist

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Peter Frederick Rothermel is an American painter; he was born in Nescopeck, Pennsylvania in 1817. He studied so many places in Europe after that he was studying under Bass Otis and John R. Smith. He was an expert in dramatic historical paintings and portrait. In 1844, he was served up as a Vice President of the Artists’ Fund Society and as well as a Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts since 1847 to 1855.

Rothermel most famed paintings contain a vast oil painting of the Battle of Gettysburg and Patrick Henry before the Virginia House of Burgesses that sling in the Pennsylvania State Museum. This later work was custom-built by David McConaughy lawyer of Gettysburg. In 1844 he was painted another popular historical works is Columbus Before the Queen.
 

November 16, 2007

George Winter – American Artist

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George Winter’s family and life
George Winter was a well-known artist for his portrait of Native Americans. He was born in Portsea, England; he was lived in an art environment since early infancy with a member of a cultivated family. After that, he goes where he lived and worked for four years into the Royal Academy, London, and then he shifted to New York City in 1830 when he was twenty years old and he sustained his studies on the National Academy of Design. Then he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1835. On a voyage to nearby Dayton, Ohio, he met Mary Jane Squier, he get married her in 1840. Then winter shifted to Logansport, Indiana, in 1837 to document their civilization. After 13 years he moved to Lafayette, Indiana, he lived there until 1873, and then moved to California. In 1876 he came back to Lafayette, he was expired a suddenly as attending a meeting of railroad stockholders at Snyder’s Opera House. He was covered in Lafayette’s Greenbush Cemetery.

Significance of George Winter’s Career
George Winter’s artistic job was predated by Charles Alexandre Lesueur and Karl Bodmer in Indiana frontier. In a private correspondence George winter inform of six paintings of the Tippecanoe battle ground and of two of them contains measurements of 152 square feet each one. Additionally, he explains the collected works as being obtained from different thoughts of view and overall suggests the idea of not only the battle ground other than of the nearby romantic country. For the most important and precious work left by George Winter was a set of paintings never sold by him.

In further to George Winter’s paintings there is a huge manuscript compilation involved of George Winter’s documents that has the most significant historic worth due to its intimate explanation of the Wabash Indians. George Winter’s actual writings regarding the relocation of the Miami and Pottawatomie tribes are of significant value. Winter is well known for his documentation of the life of Frances Slocum.

Part of the George Winter collection is now presented online during a cooperative project of the Tippecanoe County Historical Association.

November 11, 2007

Peter Rindisbacher – American Artist

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Peter Rindisbacher was a North American artist and watercolorist. He was expert in illustration dealing by First Nation tribes and United States and the Western Canada.

Rindisbacher move out of the country from Switzerland to western Canada with his family members at the time he was fifteen. The family tied the Red River Colony found by the Earl of Selkirk, placed near present Manitoba, Winnipeg. In 1826 Rindisbacher family change place to Wisconsin after that permanently settled in St. Louis, Missouri in 1829.

Rindisbacher was a generating artist. He started on working with charcoal as a little boy, with the support of his father, and got 1 year of good training as an artist in Switzerland. He performed watercolors and sketches of animals and Indians in midwestern United States and the north-central Canada, as well as the Chippewa and Metis populace living next to the Red River. Rindisbacher set up an artist’s studio in St. Louis, where he also created illustrations for book covers and magazines.

He is identified to have formed 124 artworks, with forty presently detained by Library and Archives Canada. A second huge concentration of Rindisbacher’s job is originated in the West Point Museum of the United States Military Academy.

November 1, 2007

John Quidor – American Artist

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John Quidor was an historical and American artist. He was studied with Henry Inman and John Wesley. He was born in Gloucester Co., N. J., and shifted to New York City in 1826 wherever he become skilled at painting. Later than he lived on a farmhouse nearby Quincy, Ill., but came back to New York City in 1851. He was imposed to carry himself by painting the panels of period trainers and fire engines and expired in wretched poverty.

The Headless Horseman following Ichabod Crane (1858). While Quidor was little cherished in his own time, after his death he was accorded a position along with the best early American artists. He was a good friend of Washington Irving, who is the Knickerbockers History of New York provide him the themes for the four paintings in the Brooklyn, New York, Institute: Peter Stuyvesant’s Wall Street Gate, Dancing on the Battery, The Voyage from Communipaw to Hell Gate and the Voyage of the Good Oloff up the Hudson, These show the rich and poetic thoughts and, pleasant-sounding color and naïve humor which have get Quidor tardy credit as one of the most talented of early American painters. He is signified in the Brooklyn Museum by three paintings: Dorothea, Wolfert’s Will and Money Diggers. He also painted religious matters such as Jesus Blessing the Sick. His job was generally on a large scale.

Oil Paintings