Toby Edward Rosenthal
Toby Edward Rosenthal was an American painter.Biography
Moving to San Francisco with his parents in 1855, he there studied painting under Fortunato Arriola. In 1865 he went to Munich, where he was a pupil of the Royal Academy under Strachuber, Karl Raupp and Karl Theodor von Piloty. He received medals in Munich in 1870 and 1883, and in Philadelphia in 1876. Except for some visits home, his professional life was spent in Europe.Works
- “Love's Last Offering”
- “Spring's Joy and Sorrow”
- “J.S. Bach and his family at morning prayers”
- “The beautiful Elaine,” after a ballad of Alfred Tennyson
- “Young Monk in Refectory”
- “Forbidden Longings”
- “Who laughs last, laughs best,” a humorous genre diptych
- “Girls' Boarding-School Alarmed”
- “A Mother's Prayer”
- “Empty Place”
- “Trial of the escaped nun Constance de Beverly,” after Walter Scott's Marmion
- “Dancing Lesson During the Empire”
- “Departure from the Family”
- “Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire,” one of the most popular of his works, and frequently engraved
Other works
- Toby E. Rosenthal, Erinnerungen eines Malers, Munich: Richard Pflaum, 1927.
