Julius Stockfleth, marine and landscape painter, was born in Wyk auf Föhr, Schleswig-Holstein, on January 29, 1857, son of Friedrich August and Louise (Hansen) Stockfleth. His father was a ship joiner and sailor, and his mother was an "innkeeper for the suite of Christian VIII" of Denmark. The parents immigrated to the United States during the 1870s. Stockfleth's early artistic training occurred in Wyk, where he was apprenticed to a local painter.

He immigrated to the United States in 1883 and settled in Galveston two years later. He listed himself as a portrait painter until he returned to Germany in 1907, where he continued his art career in Wyk until his death. He never married. During two decades in Texas, Stockfleth produced a ...