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3 unusual facts about Henry Mosler


Henry Mosler

Examples of his work are in currently in the collections of the Allentown Art Museum, the Wichita Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Huntington Library, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, the Sydney Art Museum, NSW, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Richmond Art Museum, the art museums of Springfield, Massachusetts, and various museums in New York.

His "Le Retour," from the Paris Salon of 1879, was the first American painting ever bought for the Luxembourg Palace.

He was born in Tropplowitz, Silesia (now in Poland, on the Czech border) and moved with his family to New York in 1849, when he was 8 years old.


Harper's Weekly

Besides renderings by Homer and Nast, Harpers also published illustrations by Theodore R. Davis, Henry Mosler, and the brothers Alfred and William Waud.


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