| Herminia Dassel was born in Germany at an unknown date and achieved success in America with paintings of literary subjects, genre scenes, and portraits. Her father was a wealthy banker in Konigsberg, Prussia, and as a child, servants, teachers, horse-drawn carriages, and all the trappings of European upper class society surrounded Herminia Borchard. When her father was bankrupted in the crash of 1839, and left with only a small farm, she was forced to help her older brothers and sisters with the (showing 500 of 4369 characters). |
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