Biografie von Frederick August WENDEROTH (1819-1884)

Birth place: Kassel, Germany

Addresses: Brooklyn, NY, 1848; San Francisco, by 1854; Charleston, SC, 1857; Philadelphia, PA, 1869

Profession: Historical, animal, landscape, and portrait painter, lithographer

Studied: Kassel Academy

Exhibited: NAD, 1869; PAFA Ann., 1876, 1880

Comments: The son of the painter Carl Wenderoth. In 1845 he went to Paris and also visited Algeria. In partnership in San Francisco with the lithographer and painter Charles C. Nahl (see entry), also from Kassel. Wenderoth married Laura Nahl in 1856 and soon returned East. With Jesse Bolles (see entry) in Charleston (SC) Cf. August Wenderoth. He was active at least until 1863, since he painted a picture of the Battle of Gettysburg. His works are rare.

Sources: G&W; Peters, America on Stone; Met. Mus., Life in America, no. 150; Nègler; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; San Francisco CD 1854; Peters, California on Stone; Phila. BD 1858; Magazine of Art (May 1944), 188, repro. Cf. Frederick A. Wenderoth; Rutledge, Artists in the Life of Charleston, 165, 224; Phila. CD 1860+. More recently, see Hughes, Artists in California, 596, who states his year of birth to be 1819; Falk, Exh. Record Series.