Internet Antique Gazette

Edward G. Eisenlohr (American, 1872 to 1961)

Edward Eisenlohr began his art studies with Frank Reaugh and Robert Jenkins Onderdonk. In Woodstock he studied with Birge Harrison, and also at the Art Students League in New York. In 1907 to 1908, he went to Germany to study with Gustav Schonleber. While there he also enrolled in the Granducal Academy of Fine Arts.

Upon returning, Eisenlohr devoted full time to art (he had left his [...] Click here to continue reading.

George Ford Morris (American, 1873 to 1960)

Well known as an American equestrian artist, George Ford Morris worked as a painter, sculptor, illustrator and lithographer. Although self-taught, he attended classes at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1888 and later at the Academie Julien in Paris. He is best known for his illustrations of horses and equestrians. His work can be seen in the New York Historical Society, the International Museum of the Horse [...] Click here to continue reading.

Frederick Richard Lee (British, 1798 to 1879)

Lee was a popular and financially successful painter who created idealized scenes of the English countryside. An accomplished artist, he combined detailed, accurate depictions of nature with rustic elements, often incorporating figures, cottages, and farms into his works.

Lee’s style and subject appealed to the English upper classes, and many of his works entered private collections, where they remain to this day. Lee entered the Royal [...] Click here to continue reading.

Rudolf Levy (German, 1875 to 1944)

Levy was the scion of a prosperous Jewish merchant family. He originally enrolled in the Grand Ducal School for Decorative and Applied Arts in Baden in 1895 to study carpentry, but left that University in 1897 when he decided to pursue painting at the various, well-lauded private art schools in Munich.

In Munich, Levy studied with Nicolas Gyzis, Heinrich Knirr (1862-1944), and the noted Symbolist painter Franz von [...] Click here to continue reading.