Lambert Sachs (1818-1903)

Painted circa 1850; on the orginal stretchers and in the original frame. Canvas stamped Goupil & Co. 366 Broadway, New York, G. ROWNEY & CO. Manufaturers D. RATHBONE & CE. LONDON

Descended in the family of the sitters to the current owners.

"Born in Mannheim, Germany in 1818 Lambert Sachs decided to come to America in 1850, where he may have settled first in New York. The earliest reference to Sachs in America is found in the records of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he exhibited three paintings in 1854: two portraits of unidentified sitters (present locations unknown) and George Washington at Prayer at Valley Forge. Several signed and dated works, largely portraits, document his occupation in these years as an itinerant artist in Ocean County, New Jersey, fifty miles directly east of Philadelphia." Excerpted from Deborah Chotner, American Naive Painters, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1992, pp. 331-333.