Francis Martin Drexel was a prominent 19th-century portrait painter
whose painting career began in Europe, continued in Philadelphia and in
South America for an extended period of time. He also became a
banker and was the founder of the brokerage house, Drexel & Company
in Philadelphia.
Born in Dornbirn, in the far western Austrian
Alpine province of the Vorarlbergon on April 7, 1792, he was the son of
one of Dornbirn's most successful merchants. From 1806 to 1809, Drexel (showing 500 of 5918 characters). |
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Painted in Latin America
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