Daniel Albert Wehrschmidt (1861 – 22 February 1932), also known as D. A. Veresmith
A fine oil portrait of a man in a green turban.
Wehrschmidt was German-American artist from Ohio who made a career in England as a portrait painter, lithographer and engraver.
He exhibited ten paintings at the Royal Academy, London, between 1886 and 1893 and his 1905 portrait of Robert Falcon Scott was accepted by the British government in lieu of tax in 2012 and allocated to the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Wehrschmidt is also noted for seven of twenty-five illustrations in Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
Daniel Albert Wehrschmidt (1861 – 22 February 1932), also known as D. A. Veresmith
A fine oil portrait of a man in a green turban.
Wehrschmidt was German-American artist from Ohio who made a career in England as a portrait painter, lithographer and engraver.
He exhibited ten paintings at the Royal Academy, London, between 1886 and 1893 and his 1905 portrait of Robert Falcon Scott was accepted by the British government in lieu of tax in 2012 and allocated to the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Wehrschmidt is also noted for seven of twenty-five illustrations in Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
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