 Frederick Richard Petrie is primarily known as Friedrich Richard Petri
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Quoted from: W. W. Newcomb, Jr., "PETRI, FRIEDRICH RICHARD," Handbook of Texas Online
Friedrich Richard Petri, painter, was born on July 31, 1824, in Dresden, Saxony, the son of Heinrich and Juliane Dorothea (Weise) Petri. His father was a well-to-do master shoemaker, and Dorothea was a shoemaker's daughter. Petri entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden when he was fourteen and studied there for eleven years under Adrian Ludwig Richter and Julius Hübner. An apt pu (showing 500 of 4057 characters). |
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