Samuel P. Ziegler, a portrait, landscape and figure painter as well as muralist, printmaker and musician, spent his early years studying in his native state at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with William Merritt Chase, Thomas Anschutz and Hugh Breckenridge.  He studied music at the Philadelphia Musical Academy from 1905 to 1912 when he went to Europe on a year-long scholarship to tour museums.  He then settled into a painting studio in Philadelphia and also (showing 500 of 1966 characters).