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HENRY MOSLER (1841– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 899 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY MOSLER (1841– )  ,
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American artist, was born at New York, on the 6th of
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June 1841, the
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family removing to
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Cincinnati when he was about ten years old . Studying
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drawing by himself, he became a draughtsman for a comic paper, the Omnibus (Cincinnati), in 1855; in 1859–1861 he studied under James H . Beard, and in 1862–63, during the
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Civil War, was an
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art correspondent of Harper's Weekly . In 1863 he went to
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Dusseldorf, where for almost three years he was at the Royal Academy
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schools; he subsequently went to Paris, where he studied for a short time under Ernest Hebert . His " Le Retour," from the Paris
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Salon of 1879, was the first American picture ever bought for the Luxembourg . He received a
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silver medal in Paris 1889, and gold medals at Paris, 1888, and Vienna, 1893 . Examples of his
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work are in the
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Sydney Art Museum, N.S.W., and the art museums of
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Springfield, Mass., Cincinnati,
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Ohio and New York . His son, GUSTAVE HENRY MOSLER (1875-1906), a pupil of his
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father and of Leon
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Bonnat, exhibited at the Salon in Paris, receiving a medal for his " De Profundis " in 1891; his portrait of Governor J . W . Stewart is in the State House,
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Montpelier,
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Vermont, and his " Empty Cradle " is in the Toledo Art Club .

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