Toby Edward Rosenthal was an American

United States

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 painter

Painting

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Biography

Moving to San Francisco with his parents in 1855, he there studied painting under Fortunato Arriola

Fortunato Arriola

Fortunato Arriola , born in Cosala, Sinaloa, Mexico, was a painter of portraits and luminous tropical landscapes that were very popular in San Francisco, California where he came to live in 1857. The son of a wealthy landowner, Arriola was a handsome, distinguished and cultivated man...

. In 1865 he went to Munich

Munich

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, where he was a pupil of the Royal Academy under Strachuber, Karl Raupp

Karl Raupp

Karl Raupp was a German landscape and genre painter.-Biography:After studying genre painting under Jakob Becker at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt, he became a pupil and zealous follower of Piloty in Munich , where he soon gathered a small school. After 1865, he opened a studio, taking private...

 and Karl Theodor von Piloty. He received medals in Munich in 1870 and 1883, and in Philadelphia in 1876

Centennial Exposition

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. Except for some visits home, his professional life was spent in Europe.

Works

• “Love's Last Offering”
• “Spring's Joy and Sorrow” (1868)
• “J.S. Bach and his family at morning prayers” (Leipzig
  Leipzig
  Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...
  
   Museum; 1870)
• “The beautiful Elaine,” after a ballad of Alfred Tennyson (1874)
• “Young Monk in Refectory” (1875)
• “Forbidden Longings”
• “Who laughs last, laughs best,” a humorous genre diptych
• “Girls' Boarding-School Alarmed” (1877)
• “A Mother's Prayer” (1881)
• “Empty Place” (1882)
• “Trial of the escaped nun Constance de Beverly,” after Walter Scott
  Walter Scott
  Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time....
  
  's Marmion (Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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  ; 1883)
• “Dancing Lesson During the Empire”
• “Departure from the Family”
• “Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire,” one of his most popular of his works, and frequently engraved (1871)

Other works

• Toby E. Rosenthal, Erinnerungen eines Malers (Memoirs of a painter), Munich: Richard Pflaum, 1927.

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