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"Albert Rosenthal" Signed Artist's Proof of GEORGE WASHINGTON
ALBERT ROSENTHAL (1863-1939). Portrait Painter, Etcher and Lithographer, Printmaker in Philadelphia, Pa., student of his father, engraver Max Rosenthal, known for his portraits of Supreme Court Justices, and his collection of American drawings.
c. 1897, Signed Artist's Proof Engraved Print, "Albert Rosenthal" of General GEORGE WASHINGTON (After a Miniature by Charles Willson Peale, Printed by E. Opitz, Philadelphia, PA), Choice Crisp Superb Proof. This uncolored, 7" x 4.75" Large Die Proof impression is printed on a larger sheet measuring to 14" x 11". George Washingtonis depicted in his Continental Army military uniform, along with a small image of his Coat of Arms below. This historic Artist's Proof is neatly Signed, "Albert Rosenthal" in pencil just below the oval bust portrait of Washington, after a 1785 miniature painting by Peale and a pencil notation: "No. 12" indicating the state of this Engraving or the subscriber number when it was produced.
Albert Rosenthal (1863 - 1939) was was born in Philadelphia, active/lived in Pennsylvania, New York. Albert Rosenthal is known for his portrait, figure and landscape painting, etching, lithography. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art under his father Max Rosenthal; the Acadmie Julian, Paris in 1980; l'cole des Beaux-Arts under Jean Leon Grme, and also in Munich.
Rosenthal was a member of the Washington Art Club, Salmagundi Club, Charcoal Club in Baltimore, the Locust Club in Philadelphia and the American Federation of Art.
He received a bronze medal at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 and a bronze medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, 1915. Rosenthal also exhibited at the Salon of Independent Artists in 1917 and the Salons of America.
Albert Rosenthal's research material on Early American Art consists of articles on artists, notes about portrait painters, typescript copies of letters of or about early American artists, among them Rembrandt Peale, G.P.A. Healy, and John Rampage, several original letters, including 5 from John Quincy Adams Ward to various people, and one from Ben Silliman to Asher B. Durand, and an engraved copy of a letter from Ben Franklin to Mr. Strahan, July 5, 1775.
Other material includes files on Rosenthal's portraits of French officers who served in the American Revolution; Gilbert Stuart's (George) Washington portraits, 1922-1923; the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia (includes correspondence with Jules Mastbaum, the founder of the museum, and others, 1925-1932); Jean Antoine Houdon's busts of Washington and Lafayette, 1925-1932; Harry T. Peters' book "America on Stone", 1931.