Artists

John Ross Key was the grandson of Francis Scott Key, author of the patriotic song The Star Spangled Banner.  He was born in Hagerstown, Maryland in 1832 and studied art in Munich and Paris.  He worked in a number of American cities including Boston where he showed over 100 works in 1877.  Critics praised his work as "firm and masterly, strong...

Charles Wilson Knapp was a noted landscape artist of great ability.  He was born in Philadelphia in 1823 and spent most of his life in that city.   He worked primarily in Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, the Susquehanna River Valley, the area around the Delaware Water Gap, and the Berkshire Mountains.  He especially enjoyed painting...

Robert Koehler (November 28, 1850 - April 23, 1917) was a German-born painter and art teacher who spent most of his career in the United States of America. Biography Koehler was born in Hamburg; his family spelled their name Köhler until they moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1854. There he attended the historic German-English Academy. He...

Paul LaCroix, an immigrant from France, appeared in New York some time before 1855. Urban centers such as New York and Philadelphia witnessed an influx of foreign artists at mid-century who left “to escape the turmoil of the revolutions of 1848” (1). European immigrants such as LaCroix brought with them the Dutch, German, and French traditions...

The attribution to Salome Hensel and date (1823) of the National Gallery's To the Memory of the Benevolent Howard (1971.83.22), an unsigned theorem painting, are based on a label that was once afixed to the reverse. It reads: "This painting was done in 1823 by Salome Hensel eldest daughter of George and Catherine Noon Hensel. Salome was afterwards...