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3 unusual facts about William Jacob Baer


Robert Frederick Blum

A Daughter of Japan, drawn by Blum and William Jacob Baer, was the cover of Scribner's Magazine for May 1893, and was one of the earliest pieces of color printing for an American magazine.

William Jacob Baer

Upon his return to the United States, Baer settled into the Montclair, New Jersey art colony to continue his career as a genre, portrait painter and teacher.

During the same period he attended an evening modeling class at the McMicken School of Design, taught by Louis Rebisso.


Art Academy of Cincinnati

Louis Rebisso (1837–1899) sculptor and teacher.whose students at CAA include William Jacob Baer, Solon Borglum, Janet Scudder, Mary Chase Perry and Eli Harvey.


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