{{short description|American portrait artist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2021}} {{for|the legal scholar|Albert J. Rosenthal}} {{Infobox artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Albert Rosenthal | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1863|1|30}} | birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1939|12|20|1863|1|30}} | death_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | resting_place = | education = {{plainlist| * Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts * Académie Julian * École des Beaux-Arts }} | known_for = Portraits and etchings | notable_works = | style = | movement = | spouse = {{marriage|Henryetta Douglass Nuneville|1901|1930|reason=divorced}} | children = | father = Max Rosenthal | relatives = | family = | awards = | elected = | patrons = | memorials = | module = {{Infobox person |child=yes | signature = Albert Rosenthal signature.tiff }} }}
'''Albert Rosenthal''' (January 30, 1863 – December 20, 1939) was an American portrait artist, printmaker, writer, and collector from Philadelphia.<ref name="si">{{Cite web |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/albert-rosenthal-papers-8390 |title=Albert Rosenthal papers, 1860-1940 |website=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=2021-09-25}}</ref>
==Early life== Albert Rosenthal was born in Philadelphia on January 30, 1863, to Max Rosenthal.<ref name="obit">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/12/21/archives/albert-rosenthal-portrait-painter-noted-etcher-expert-on-rare-art.html |title=Albert Rosenthal, Portrait Painter |date=1939-12-21 |page=23 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=2021-09-25}}</ref><ref name="annex">{{Cite web |url=https://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/2039/Rosenthal/Albert |title=Albert Rosenthal |website=annexgalleries.com}}</ref><ref name="woodmere">{{Cite web |url=https://woodmereartmuseum.org/explore-online/collection/artist/albert-rosenthal |title=Albert Rosenthal |website=woodmereartmuseum.org |access-date=2021-09-25}}</ref> He studied at Central High School for three years.<ref name="inquirer">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85945378/albert-rosenthal-noted-artist-dies-22/ |title=Albert Rosenthal, Noted Artist, Dies |date=1939-12-22 |page=9 |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=2021-09-25}}{{Open access}}</ref> His father was an engraver and lithographer and he studied under him at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1880. He also studied at École des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Léon Gérôme.<ref name="obit"/><ref name="annex"/><ref name="woodmere"/>
His first job was as an errand boy in the drug store owned by Charles Elmer Hires.<ref name="inquirer"/>
==Career== [[File:Albert Rosenthal - Alexander Hamilton - 1951.414 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif|thumbnail|right|Etching of Alexander Hamilton by Albert Rosenthal, 1895]] Rosenthal was known for his portraits of Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and U.S. Supreme Court justices (including Melville Fuller and Edward Douglass White), Attorneys General of the United States and his collection of American drawings.<ref name="obit"/><ref name="annex"/><ref name="inquirer"/> He painted likenesses of the members of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He also copied original portraits of Americans and French in the American Revolution and the Colonial Governors of Philadelphia.<ref name="obit"/>
He did lithographs and etchings of Jefferson Fulton, Gilbert Stuart, Joseph Priestley, Louis Pasteur, John Paul Jones, Abraham Lincoln and Alexander Hamilton.<ref name="obit"/>
Rosenthal exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists in 1917 and the Salons of America.<ref name="annex"/> He donated his drawings to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1927.<ref name="annex"/> He also donated some of his and his father's portraits to the British Museum in 1936.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG44201 |title=Albert Rosenthal |website=British Museum |access-date=2021-09-25}}</ref> He moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania in 1928.<ref name="annex"/>
In 1927, he was called as an art expert about the authenticity of a portrait of George Washington by John Smibert. In 1930, he was again called as an art expert about the authenticity of a portrait of Washington by Gilbert Stuart.<ref name="obit"/>
==Personal life== Rosenthal married Henryetta Douglass Nuneville in 1901. They divorced in 1930.<ref name="obit"/><ref name="inquirer"/>
Rosenthal purchased the Hufnagel Mansion in 1927 near New Hope, Pennsylvania.<ref name="obit"/><ref name="inquirer"/> He sold it in 1938.<ref name="inquirer"/>
==Death== Rosenthal died on December 20, 1939, at the home of his sister in New York City.<ref name="obit"/><ref name="inquirer"/>
==Awards== Rosenthal received a bronze medal at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 and a bronze medal at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915.<ref name="annex"/>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons}} * [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/albert-rosenthal-papers-8390 Albert Rosenthal papers, 1860-1940 (Smithsonian)] * [https://www.albrightknox.org/person/albert-rosenthal Albert Rosenthal works (Albright-Knox)] * [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG44201 Albert Rosenthal works (The British Museum)] * [https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu03968.xml A Guide to the Rosenthal Collection of Historical Portraits (1880-1900) (University of Virginia Library)]
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