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1824 Dresden, Germany - 1857 Fredericksburg, Texas. Known for: Portrait, figure, and genre painting.
Quoted from: W. W. Newcomb, Jr., "PETRI, FRIEDRICH RICHARD," Handbook of Texas Online . Friedrich Richard Petri, painter, was born on July 31, 1824, in Dresden, Saxony, the son of Heinrich and... Read full biography
Quoted from: W. W. Newcomb, Jr., "PETRI, FRIEDRICH RICHARD," Handbook of Texas Online . Friedrich Richard Petri, painter, was born on July 31, 1824, in Dresden, Saxony, the son of Heinrich and Juliane Dorothea (Weise) Petri. His father was a well-to-do master shoemaker, and Dorothea was a... Read full biography
Quoted from: W. W. Newcomb, Jr., "PETRI, FRIEDRICH RICHARD," Handbook of Texas Online . Friedrich Richard Petri, painter, was born on July 31, 1824, in Dresden, Saxony, the son of Heinrich and Juliane Dorothea (Weise) Petri. His father was a well-to-do master shoemaker, and Dorothea was a shoemaker's daughter. Petri entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden when he was fourteen and studied there for eleven years under Adrian Ludwig Richter and Julius Hübner. An apt pupil, he won six awards... Read full biography
Quoted from: W. W. Newcomb, Jr., "PETRI, FRIEDRICH RICHARD," Handbook of Texas Online . Friedrich Richard Petri, painter, was born on July 31, 1824, in Dresden, Saxony, the son of Heinrich and Juliane Dorothea (Weise) Petri. His father was a well-to-do master shoemaker, and Dorothea was a shoemaker's daughter. Petri entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden when he was fourteen and studied there for eleven years under Adrian Ludwig Richter and Julius Hübner. An apt pupil, he won six awards while there and was ultimately offered a scholarship to study in Italy, which included the further honor of returning to the academy as an instructor. Ill health apparently led him to refuse the offer. At the academy Petri became a friend of an older... Read full biography
Quoted from: W. W. Newcomb, Jr., "PETRI, FRIEDRICH RICHARD," Handbook of Texas Online . Friedrich Richard Petri, painter, was born on July 31, 1824, in Dresden, Saxony, the son of Heinrich and Juliane Dorothea (Weise) Petri. His father was a well-to-do master shoemaker, and Dorothea was a shoemaker's daughter. Petri entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden when he was fourteen and studied there for eleven years under Adrian Ludwig Richter and Julius Hübner. An apt pupil, he won six awards while there and was ultimately offered a scholarship to study in Italy, which included the further honor of returning to the academy as an instructor. Ill health apparently led him to refuse the offer. At the academy Petri became a friend of an older student, Karl Friedrich Hermann Lungkwitz, who subsequently became a well-known Texas landscape painter. Wit... Read full biography
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Richard Petri, Frederick Richard Petrie
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Quoted from: W. W. Newcomb, Jr., "PETRI, FRIEDRICH RICHARD," Handbook of Texas Online
Friedrich Richard Petri, painter, was born on July 31, 1824, in Dresden, Saxony, the son of Heinrich and Juliane Dorothea (Weise) Petri. His father was a well-to-do master shoemaker, and Dorothea was a shoemaker's daughter. Petri entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden when he was fourteen and studied there for eleven years under Adrian Ludwig Richter and Julius Hübner. An apt pupil, he won six awards while there and was ultimately offered a scholarship to study in Italy, which included the further honor of returning to the academy as an instructor. Ill health apparently led him to refuse the offer. At the academ...But wait, there's more...
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