Frederick Rondel, born in Paris in 1826, came to America and is best remembered as the only art teacher of Winslow Homer. He was also a successful landscape and marine painter who painted extensively throughout New England and as far as San Francisco. Among his paintings were views of the Hudson River.

Rondel's New England landscapes and paintings of New York City were ultimately influenced by the romanticism of his teachers in Paris, Theodore Gudin and Auguste Jugelet (Jugelet himself being a pupil of Gudin).

It is known that in 1855 to 1857 Rondel was in Boston, having arrived from Europe, and one year later was in South Malden, Massachusetts, while concurrently keeping a New York City studio.
He was away from New York in Europe from 1862 to 1868, the duration of the Civil War, but returned to the city to be a faculty member at the National Academy of Design, where he had become an Associate member.

He exhibited at the National Academy, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the Boston Athenaeum.

Frederick Rondel died in 1892.

Sources:
David Michael Zellman, 300 Years of American Art
Edan Hughes, Artists in California Before 1940