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Henry Mosler
"Woman Resting Beneath a Tree" Henry Mosler, American Portrait in Landscape

circa 1900

$20,000
£15,178.42
€17,483.33
CA$28,580.18
A$31,366.47
CHF 16,176.57
MX$374,695.10
NOK 204,987.14
SEK 192,082.48
DKK 130,567.59

About the Item

Henry Mosler Woman Resting Beneath a Tree, circa 1900 Signed upper right: Henry Mosler Oil on canvas 12 1/2 x 10 inches Mosler was born in Tropplowitz, Silesia, Prussia (present-day Opawica, Poland), and moved with his family to New York in 1849, when he was 8 years old. His father, Gustavus Mosler, had worked as a lithographer in Europe, but in New York he found work as a cigar maker and tobacconist. In 1851, the family relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio, the site of a substantial German-Jewish community. Henry was apprenticed to a wood engraver, Horace C. Grosvenor, while still in his early teens, and also was taught the basics of painting by an amateur landscape painter, George Kerr. Henry Mosler studied in Cincinnati with portrait and genre painter James Beard for two years and covered the Western theater of the Civil War as an artist-correspondent for Harper's Monthly. He studied for three years in Düsseldorf and Paris before returning home to begin his career. In 1874, Mosler again traveled to Paris, but remained for twenty years this time and developed a reputation for his paintings of Breton peasant life. Mosler's final homecoming to his adopted country came in 1894. In that year he set up a studio in New York City and turned his attention to historical genre with the same eye for detail that marked his earlier work. Examples of his work are in currently in the collections of the Allentown Art Museum, the Wichita Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Huntington Library, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, the Sydney Art Museum, NSW, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Richmond Art Museum, the art museums of Springfield, Massachusetts, and various museums in New York.
  • Creator:
    Henry Mosler (1841 - 1920, Polish)
  • Creation Year:
    circa 1900
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 20.25 in (51.44 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)
  • More Editions & Sizes:
    Unique workPrice: $20,000
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  • Gallery Location:
    New York, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1841217090652

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