Albert Rosenthal was an American portrait artist, printmaker, writer, and collector from Philadelphia.
14 Facts About Albert Rosenthal
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Albert Rosenthal was born in Philadelphia on January 30,1863, to Max Rosenthal.
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Albert Rosenthal studied at Central High School for three years.
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Albert Rosenthal's father was an engraver and lithographer and he studied under him at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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Albert Rosenthal studied at the Academie Julian in Paris in 1880.
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Albert Rosenthal studied at Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Leon Gerome.
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Albert Rosenthal painted the members of the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
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Albert Rosenthal copied original portraits of Americans and French in the American Revolution and the Colonial Governors of Philadelphia.
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Albert Rosenthal did lithographs and etchings of Jefferson Fulton, Gilbert Stuart, Joseph Priestley, Louis Pasteur, John Paul Jones, Abraham Lincoln and Alexander Hamilton.
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Albert Rosenthal exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists in 1917 and the Salons of America.
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Albert Rosenthal donated his drawings to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1927.
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Albert Rosenthal donated some of his and his father's portraits to the British Museum in 1936.
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Albert Rosenthal purchased the Hufnagel Mansion in 1927 near New Hope, Pennsylvania.
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Albert Rosenthal died on December 20,1939, at the home of his sister in New York City.