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An example of work by George Calder Eichbaum
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following is submitted by William A. Anderson, Great grand-nephew of George C. Eichbaum and Lizzie L. Eichbaum. His mother, Georgie R.[Eichbaum]
Anderson, was the grand daughter of William F. Eichbaum, who was one of the siblings of George and Lizzie.
George Calder Eichbaum was born May 12, 1837 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. His father, George R. Eichbaum, a prominent civil engineer, was born in 1803 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and was for a long time in the service of the U. S. Government and was in charge of improvements for the Osage River when he died in 1873. The maiden name of the mother of George C. Eichbaum was Helena Calder, born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1816 and died in St. Louis in 1893.
As a youth, George C. Eichbaum attended the schools of Pennsylvania and Ohio. As a young man, he started a career of civil engineering in Western Pennsylvania but soon a love of art became foremost and he abandoned civil engineering to pursue his new interest. He received instruction under David R. Smith of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and in 1859, opened a studio in the Switzer Building at the corner of Sixth and Pine Streets in St. Louis.
Most of his works were in portraiture with some occasional figure painting. He was noted for a beauty in coloring and a truthfulness to likeness in his portraits. During the Civil war, he served in the Union Army as a Sargent in the Missouri N.G. Infantry.
He exhibited at various times in the National Academy of Design in New York City. For some years he worked from the Sherwood Studio Building at Sixth Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street in New York. He attended the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1878 and spent some time in visiting the art centers of the old world.
In the census of 1900. he is listed as residing at 5104 Shaw Avenue in St. Louis, along with his sisters Helen M. and Lizzie L. There is also a niece, Mary E. who is staying with them to attend art school in St. Louis.
The 1904 City Directory lists George C. and Lizzie L as portrait artists whose studio was on the seventh floor at 816 Olive Street in the Frisco Building. George C. Eichbaum appears in the catalog for the 1904 Saint Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
He died at the Deacon's Hospital on April 18, 1919 of arterial schlerosis. He was buried in the Eichbaum family plot in the Bellefontaine Cemetery in Saint Louis.
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