Born in Kassel, Germany, Jacob Maentel is believed to have trained as a physician and worked as a farmer and mercenary and served in Napoleon's army as his Secretary in Westphalia. By 1797, he was a... Read full biography
Born in Kassel, Germany, Jacob Maentel is believed to have trained as a physician and worked as a farmer and mercenary and served in Napoleon's army as his Secretary in Westphalia. By 1797, he was a portrait painter living near the harbor in Baltimore, but his earliest portrait is dated 1807.... Read full biography
Born in Kassel, Germany, Jacob Maentel is believed to have trained as a physician and worked as a farmer and mercenary and served in Napoleon's army as his Secretary in Westphalia. By 1797, he was a portrait painter living near the harbor in Baltimore, but his earliest portrait is dated 1807. However, little is known of the actualities of his life. His birth date is allegedly 1763, but nowhere is it mentioned that he who died in 1863 was a centenarian. Between 1800 and 1840, it has been... Read full biography
Born in Kassel, Germany, Jacob Maentel is believed to have trained as a physician and worked as a farmer and mercenary and served in Napoleon's army as his Secretary in Westphalia. By 1797, he was a portrait painter living near the harbor in Baltimore, but his earliest portrait is dated 1807. However, little is known of the actualities of his life. His birth date is allegedly 1763, but nowhere is it mentioned that he who died in 1863 was a centenarian. Between 1800 and 1840, it has been documented that he was active in Lancaster and Lebanon Counties, Pennsylvania. But the fact there are no legal documents such as tax records, wills, deeds or birth certificates in those areas is just part of the many mysterious aspects of this man's life.... Read full biography
Born in Kassel, Germany, Jacob Maentel is believed to have trained as a physician and worked as a farmer and mercenary and served in Napoleon's army as his Secretary in Westphalia. By 1797, he was a portrait painter living near the harbor in Baltimore, but his earliest portrait is dated 1807. However, little is known of the actualities of his life. His birth date is allegedly 1763, but nowhere is it mentioned that he who died in 1863 was a centenarian. Between 1800 and 1840, it has been documented that he was active in Lancaster and Lebanon Counties, Pennsylvania. But the fact there are no legal documents such as tax records, wills, deeds or birth certificates in those areas is just part of the many mysterious aspects of this man's life. (Zellman 71) However, The Whitney Museum of American Art owns a painting of "John and Caterina Bickel of Jonestown, Pennsylvani... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (27)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Pennsylvania Heritage: Diversity in Art, Dance, Music, Food and Customs
2001
Sheets, Georg R
160 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776-1876
1997
Lipman, Jean; Alice Winchester
288 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
American Folk Paintings Paintings and Drawings Other Than Portraits
1988
Rumford, Beatrix
449 pages (color)
American Watercolors
1986
Finch, Christopher
312 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
American Folk Portraits from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center
1981
Rumford, Beatrix
295 pages (color)
American Folk Painters of Three Centuries
1980
Lipman, Jean and Tom Armstrong
233 pages (color)
Folk Painters of America
1979
Bishop, Robert
255 pages (color)
Folk Art in America Painting and Sculpture
1979
Ericson, Jack T
275 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
American Folk Art Nov. 26-Dec. 29, 1977
1978
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
44 pages (color)
American Folk Painting William E Wiltshire Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Woodward, Richard B
110 pages (color)
Currents of Expansion Painting in the Midwest, 1820-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Barter, Judith; Lynn E Springer
189 pages
Where Liberty Dwells 19th Century Art by the American People (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Tillou, Peter
114 pages (color)
American Folk Painters
1975
Ebert, John and Katherine
225 pages (color)
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
1972
Price, Vincent
320 pages (color)
What Is American in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Goodrich, Lloyd/Mary Black
80 pages (color)
Plain and Fancy A Survey of American Folk Art
1970
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
72 pages (color)
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
American Folk Painting
1966
Black, Mary/Jean Lipman
244 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860