Biografie von Jean RACHMIEL (1871-1954)

Birth place: Haverstraw, NY

Death place: Detroit, MI

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Painter, etcher

Studied: ASL with Geo. Brush; Académie Julian, Paris with J.P. Laurens and Lefebvre, 1890-92; also with Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1910 (gold med), 1911, 1912 (med); Syracuse Museum of Fine Art, 1902; NAD Ann., 1902; PAFA Ann., 1904-05; Corcoran Gal biennial, 1912; AIC Ann., 1912.

Comments: Was taught from an early age in drawing and painting by his father, landscape painter Alexandre Rachmiel. While in school in Paris, he excelled as a figure painter but preferred to paint scenes of the Champagne.

Sources: WW17; Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 383; Falk, Exh. Record Series; addl. info. courtesy of Art Cellar Exchange, San Diego, CA.