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THB1898 ALBERT ROSENTHAL Signed Pencil Sketch of General Washington
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"Albert Rosenthal" Signed Artist's "Pencil Sketch of General Washington from life taken by Chas. Willson Peale 1787."
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.
1898, Original Artist Etching Signed, "Albert Rosenthal," titled, "Pencil Sketch of General Washington," based upon "from life taken by Chas. Willson Peale 1787.", Choice Extremely Fine. This artwork measures 6.5" x 4.5", uncolored, printed on a larger 16" x 12" sheet. Hand-Signed in pencil by Albert Rosenthal below the print. This historic sketch was "from life taken by Chas. Willson Peale 1787." (The third "7" in "1777" is lined out and replaced below by "1787" in full). According to the imprint below the print, the "original" full pencil sketch is in the possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. A very "generous" (kind) rendering of George Washington, who probably didn't look quite so youthful in 1787.
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.
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