Anderer Ereignisse und Attribute:

• Beruf: Kupferschmied, Portraitmaler ( Artist, Painter )

Notizen:

Eric Zimbelmann:
1 Ehe - 4 Kinder
2 Ehe - 9 Kinder
Note:
Zunächst arbeitete Jacob Eichholtz als Kupferschmied. Thomas Sully ein führender amer. Portraitmaler seiner Zeit, hatte großen Einfluss auf seine Arbeiten. Zwischen 1810 und seinem Tod im Jahre 1842 malte Jacob Eichholtz mehr als 850 Portraits sowie einige Landschafts u. Historienbilder. Seine Spezialität waren stark lineare Portraits von Prominenten Personen aus Philadelphia und Baltimore.
Source:
Person: Janice Frank / A Garden of Ancestors

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Artist. A prolific self-taught early American painter, he was best known for his Romantic Victorian traditional portraits. The son of a tavern owner who served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, he received his basic education at Franklin College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He then apprenticed as a coppersmith and worked as a tinsmith, and in 1805 he opened a business manufacturing kitchen household items. He was attracted to drawing from an early age and in 1808 he started to devote his time to painting to the point where he was able to support his family selling portraits. In late 1811 he travelled to Boston, Massachusetts where he worked under the tutelage of famed American artist Gilbert's Stuart. In 1815 he sold his tinsmith business and became a full-time artist and was soon engaged in commission work, painting portraits in Baltimore, Maryland, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and other places. In 1823 he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he continued his work and exhibited with the Society of Artists at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In 1830 he returned to Lancaster and continued painting there until his death at the age of 65. During the course of his career, he painted over 800 portraits, many of prominent people in Pennsylvania society circles, including a young future US Congressman Thaddeus Stevens and future US President James Buchanan. A number of his works reside in art museums and historical societies throughout the US, including the Smithsonian Art Museum and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Originally interred at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster, in the early 1850s his remains were removed and reinterred in the new Woodward Hill Cemetery. (bio by: William Bjornstad)

Jacob heiratete Hatz, Catharine am 17 Apr 1803 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. Catharine (Tochter von Hatz, John Sr.) wurde geboren am 30 Jun 1770; gestorben am 21 Mrz 1817 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA; wurde beigesetzt in Woodward Hill Cemetery, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Familienblatt] [Familientafel]

Jacob heiratete Trissler, Catherine am 18 Jun 1818 in Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. Catherine wurde geboren am 24 Jul 1791 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA; gestorben am 19 Feb 1867 in Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA. [Familienblatt] [Familientafel]