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Last Name Wenderoth

Given Name Frederick August

alt. Names F. A. W. ;

Marriage Laura Nahl (18xx-1857) in 1856

Children

Year born 1819 in Kassel, Germany

Year died 1884

Place of death Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Father's occupation painter Carl Wenderoth (1xxx-18xx)

Relatives wife's half brothers: painter Carl Christian Nahl (1818-1878) ; photographer, lithographer, and painter Hugo Wilhelm Arthur Nahl (1833-1889)

Education painting from father, Kassel art academy, Paris, teachers Frederick Mueller & Léon Cogniet

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for geologist Persifor Frazer (1844-1909): On traps Mesozoic sandstone in York and Adams Counties Pennsylvania, in: Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 14 (1876) ;

Patronage taught art at the court of the landgrave of Hesse Cassel ; Harper's Weekly ;

Collaborators half-brothers-in-law painters C. C. Nahl (1xxx-1xxx) & H. W. Arthur Nahl (1xxx-1xxx) ; artist and lithographer Jesse Bolles ; lithographer William Curtis Taylor ; lithographer John Henry Brown ;

Techniques geological, fossil, and natural painting, miniature, lithography, wood engraving, photo-zincography, microphot. petrography, daguerreotype

Sample(s)

Archival sources

Published sources Kirchheimer 1982: 47 fig. 25 ;

other Further Places of Activity: France (Paris), Algeria 1846, and the USA (1849, New York, San Francisco, Sacramento). Further techniques: color stereoscopic ambrotype, ivory-type.

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