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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Hetty Reading the Scripture to the Indians
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Although primarily known as a teacher responsible for the educational development of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Christian Schussele was also a painter of portraits and history and genre paintings. He served as a professor of drawing and painting at the Academy, emphasizing the figure, from 1868 until 1879, when he died. Thomas Eakins, a former student of Schussele, who named him his assistant in 1876, assumed Schussele's position upon his death.
Schussele was born in 1824 (showing 500 of 1604 characters). |
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