Henry Ritter
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He was born at MontrealMontreal
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. He studied under Gröger
Friedrich Carl Gröger
Friedrich Carl Gröger was a north-German portrait painter and lithographer. One of the most respected portraitists of his time in northern Germany, his works are to be found in several museums, including the Hamburger Kunsthalle, as well as in north German, Holstein and Danish private...
in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
and under Karl Ferdinand Sohn
Karl Ferdinand Sohn
Karl Ferdinand Sohn was a German painter of the Düsseldorf school.He was born in Berlin and studied there under Wilhelm von Schadow, whom he followed to Düsseldorf. He treated principally mythical and poetic subjects of a highly romantic character, and painted in the mechanically idealistic manner...
at Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
. Among his chararteristic and finely colored episodes from the life of sailors and fishermen, showing the influence of his friend and teacher Rudolf Jordan (1810–1887), the most prominent are:
- “Braggart in Sailor's Tavern” (1841)
- “Offer of Marriage in Normandy” (1842, Leipzig Museum)
- “Drowned Son of the Pilot” (1844, Ravené Gallery, Berlin)
- “Poacher Before Justice of the Peace” (1847), his largest painting
- “Prairie Fire” (1851, Kunsthalle, Hamburg)
- “The Son's Last Letter” (1852, Kunsthalle, Bremen)
- “Middy's Sermon” (1853, Cologne Museum)