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1792 Dornbirn, Austria - 1863 Schuykill County, Pennsylvania. Known for: Formal portrait painter.
Francis Martin Drexel was a prominent 19th-century portrait painter whose painting career began in Europe, continued in Philadelphia and in South America for an extended period of time. He also... Read full biography
Francis Martin Drexel was a prominent 19th-century portrait painter whose painting career began in Europe, continued in Philadelphia and in South America for an extended period of time. He also became a banker and was the founder of the brokerage house, Drexel & Company in Philadelphia. Born in... Read full biography
Francis Martin Drexel was a prominent 19th-century portrait painter whose painting career began in Europe, continued in Philadelphia and in South America for an extended period of time. He also became a banker and was the founder of the brokerage house, Drexel & Company in Philadelphia. Born in Dornbirn, in the far western Austrian Alpine province of the Vorarlbergon on April 7, 1792, he was the son of one of Dornbirn's most successful merchants. From 1806 to 1809, Drexel was apprenticed to a... Read full biography
Francis Martin Drexel was a prominent 19th-century portrait painter whose painting career began in Europe, continued in Philadelphia and in South America for an extended period of time. He also became a banker and was the founder of the brokerage house, Drexel & Company in Philadelphia. Born in Dornbirn, in the far western Austrian Alpine province of the Vorarlbergon on April 7, 1792, he was the son of one of Dornbirn's most successful merchants. From 1806 to 1809, Drexel was apprenticed to a painter in the village of Wolfurt, five miles north of Dornbirn. These studies ended because of the failed 1809 Tyrolese uprising against the occupation of Napoleon in Austria, which nearly impoverished the elder Drexel, one of the insurgency's... Read full biography
Francis Martin Drexel was a prominent 19th-century portrait painter whose painting career began in Europe, continued in Philadelphia and in South America for an extended period of time. He also became a banker and was the founder of the brokerage house, Drexel & Company in Philadelphia. Born in Dornbirn, in the far western Austrian Alpine province of the Vorarlbergon on April 7, 1792, he was the son of one of Dornbirn's most successful merchants. From 1806 to 1809, Drexel was apprenticed to a painter in the village of Wolfurt, five miles north of Dornbirn. These studies ended because of the failed 1809 Tyrolese uprising against the occupation of Napoleon in Austria, which nearly impoverished the elder Drexel, one of the insurgency's leaders. To avoid being drafted into the Bonapartist forces to fight against his own country, at age 17, he fled to... Read full biography
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesFacing the Past 19th Century Portraits from Pennsylvania Academy
1992Danly, Susan104 pages (color)The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989Fresella-Lee, Nancy222 pages (color)Tropical Renaissance North American Artists: Latin America 1839-1879
1989Manthorne, Katherine Emma235 pages (color)Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1988
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings472 pagesMantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesThe New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957Groce, George; David Wallace759 pagesAmerican Painting History and Interpretation
1950Barker, Virgil715 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pages