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Portrait painter, Genre Painter, Illustrator, b. 1821 - d. 1910

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    • HENRY ULKE (GERMAN/AMERICAN, 1821-1910) DIANTHUS CARTHUSIANORUM Gouache on green colored paper: 8 x 5 5/8 in.
      Nov. 16, 2019

      HENRY ULKE (GERMAN/AMERICAN, 1821-1910) DIANTHUS CARTHUSIANORUM Gouache on green colored paper: 8 x 5 5/8 in.

      Est: $1,000 - $2,500

      HENRY ULKE (GERMAN/AMERICAN, 1821-1910) DIANTHUS CARTHUSIANORUM Gouache on green colored paper: 8 x 5 5/8 in. Framed; lower inscribed: Note: Henry Ulke was born in Frankenstein in southern Prussia in Germany in 1821 and died in Washington D.C. in 1910. His life was quite extraordinary. Henry Ulke was a famous portrait painter with more than 300 portraits in U.S. government and private collections today. His portrait of President Ulysses S. Grant hangs in the White House. He had connections socially and politically to the presidents, indeed he was one of the few eyewitnesses to the tragic death of President Lincoln. After the president had been shot in Ford’s Theatre, he was carried across the street to the Peterson house in which Henry Ulke and his brother resided. Outside his immediate family, Ulke was not known to have painted botanicals. This was a sideline for his own pleasure and these pieces remained in family hands until now. This artistic aspect of his work fits with another facet of the man, that he was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia and an avid collector of beetles. He spent countless hours in the woods and amassed tens of thousands of beetles over his lifetime, a collection he sold in 1900 to the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. Ulke’s abilities also extended to writing and before his emigration to the U.S. he contributed to a comic publication, ‘Kladderadatsch’, as well as the revolutionary ‘Rütli Zeitungen’, circa 1845-6, and was associated with freedom aspiring enthusiasts such as Titus Ullrich in Berlin. In 1852 Henry emigrated to America to join two of his younger brothers who had already moved there. Henry busied himself with photographic work and prepared daguerreotypes. He also produced photographic portrait prints of famous individuals of the period and was so successful that he was able to invite his parents and brothers and sister to join to him at his expense. In 1860 Henry set up in Washington a studio for portrait painting and photography. He was a man of great intellect and traveled back to Germany and Europe between 1868 and 1870 and in Weimar mixed with some of the greatest composers and literati of the day including Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner.

      Potomack Company
    • Henry Ulke (German/American 1821-1910), Portrait of a Young Fisher Boy, Oil on Canvas, 42 x 28 inches
      Mar. 01, 2019

      Henry Ulke (German/American 1821-1910), Portrait of a Young Fisher Boy, Oil on Canvas, 42 x 28 inches

      Est: $2,000 - $3,000

      Henry Ulke (German/American 1821-1910) Portrait of a Young Fisher Boy Signed Ulke l.r. Oil on canvas 42 x 28 in (106.7 x 71.1 cm)Property of Various Owners

      Weschler's
    • Pair of paintings by Henry Ulke (German/Washington, D.C. 1821-1910) Each is a bust of young woman watercolor on paper un...
      Oct. 12, 2013

      Pair of paintings by Henry Ulke (German/Washington, D.C. 1821-1910) Each is a bust of young woman watercolor on paper un...

      Est: $400 - $800

      Pair of paintings by Henry Ulke (German/Washington, D.C. 1821-1910) Each is a bust of young woman watercolor on paper unsigned one marked on original matting Henry Ulke one having old paper label on reverse of frame which reads "Margaud Ellen Morton Ma's sister about two years younger" "one having old paper label on reverse of frame which reads My Grandmother Cathraine McPherson Morton, Holland Pt., MD" sight size 13 1/4" x 10" ,sight size 14" x 10 1/2"

      Nadeau's Auction Gallery
    • Henry Ulke (German/Washington, D.C., 1821-1910),
      Apr. 16, 2011

      Henry Ulke (German/Washington, D.C., 1821-1910),

      Est: $4,000 - $6,000

      Henry Ulke (German/Washington, D.C., 1821-1910), "John Edward Bouligny, U.S. Representative from Louisiana (1824-1864)" and "Mary Elizabeth Parker Bouligny (1840-1908)", pair of watercolor portraits, each affixed to mat printed with artist name, inscribed in ink with sitter and artist name en verso of the former, each 12 in. x 9 in., framed. ?

      Neal Auction Company
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