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Frederick Kemmelmeyer

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Nationality
  
German American

Died
  
1821

Frederick Kemmelmeyer (c. 1760 - 1821) was a German painter who emigrated to the United States.

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Life

He first worked in Baltimore from 1788 to 1803 and then in Alexandria, Virginia, and Georgetown. He was an itinerant painter in Western Maryland.

One of his best known works is President George Washington during the Whiskey Rebellion.

Works

  • The American Star (George Washington), circa.1803, Metropolitan Museum
  • Washington Reviewing the Western Army at Fort Cumberland, Maryland, Metropolitan Museum
  • First Landing of Christopher Columbus, 1800/05, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

    • References

    Frederick Kemmelmeyer Wikipedia
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