One of America's best known history painters, Peter Rothermel suffered diminished professional reputation when the public's taste turned away from dramatically charged historical and imagined events.... Read full biography
One of America's best known history painters, Peter Rothermel suffered diminished professional reputation when the public's taste turned away from dramatically charged historical and imagined events. He was born in Nescopeck, Pennsylvania, probably in 1817, but there is confusion because his birth... Read full biography
One of America's best known history painters, Peter Rothermel suffered diminished professional reputation when the public's taste turned away from dramatically charged historical and imagined events. He was born in Nescopeck, Pennsylvania, probably in 1817, but there is confusion because his birth date has also been given as 1814 and 1812. He was first trained as a surveyor and then as a sign painter and spent much time studying the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He... Read full biography
One of America's best known history painters, Peter Rothermel suffered diminished professional reputation when the public's taste turned away from dramatically charged historical and imagined events. He was born in Nescopeck, Pennsylvania, probably in 1817, but there is confusion because his birth date has also been given as 1814 and 1812. He was first trained as a surveyor and then as a sign painter and spent much time studying the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He was a student of John Rowson Smith and Bass Otis, but later disavowed Otis as being a bad influence on his work. He became a portrait painter in Philadelphia, but turned to history painting, which was then considered the most worthy subject for a... Read full biography
One of America's best known history painters, Peter Rothermel suffered diminished professional reputation when the public's taste turned away from dramatically charged historical and imagined events. He was born in Nescopeck, Pennsylvania, probably in 1817, but there is confusion because his birth date has also been given as 1814 and 1812. He was first trained as a surveyor and then as a sign painter and spent much time studying the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He was a student of John Rowson Smith and Bass Otis, but later disavowed Otis as being a bad influence on his work. He became a portrait painter in Philadelphia, but turned to history painting, which was then considered the most worthy subject for a professional artist. One of his most famous paintings is "Patrick Henry in the House of Burgesses of Virginia," which some critics consider... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (41)
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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
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Thomas Eakins and His Fellow Artists at the Philadelphia Sketch Club (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Sellin, David; Mark Sullivan
52 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Painting in the Grand Manner The Art of Peter Frederick Rothermel (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Thistlethwaite, Mark
156 pages (color)
Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Ayers, William S
256 pages (color)
Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory The Civil War in Art
1993
Holzer, Harold/Mark E Neely Jr
336 pages (color)
Facing the Past 19th Century Portraits from Pennsylvania Academy
1992
Danly, Susan
104 pages (color)
Meadows of Memory Images of Time & Tradition in American Art & Culture
1992
Kammen, Michael
192 pages
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
Telling Tales 19th Century Narrative Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Pennsylvania Academy
100 pages (color)
American Watercolors and Pastels: Schwarz-Philadelphia (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Schwarz, Robert D. (Editor)
76 pages
The West as America Reinterpreting Images of Frontier (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Truettner, William H
386 pages (color)
American Art at the Nineteenth Century Paris Salons
1990
Fink, Lois Marie; Albert Boime, Forward; Elizabeth Broun, Preface
430 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Grand Illusions History Painting in America
1988
Gerdts, William & Thistlewaite
174 pages
A Century of Philadelphia Artists Frank S. Schwarz & Son (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Hall, Audrey
64 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
25th Anniversary Exhibition Selected American Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Adams, Henry
120 pages
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
The First Pose 1876: Turning Point in American Art
1976
Sellin, David
72 pages
American Paintings (in) The Rhode Island Historical Society
1974
Goodyear, Frank H
116 pages (color)
American Narrative Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure
192 pages (color)
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
The Kirby Collection Historical Paintings
1963
Lafayette College
54 pages (color)
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One