Bidspirit auction | Max Weyl (1837 - 1914)

Max Weyl (1837 - 1914) American - Max Weyl (1837 - 1914) Oil on Canvas, Signed Lower Right, Measures ( 8 x 10 inches ) w/frame ( 15 x 17 inches ) The story of Max Weyl's life includes his evolution from a watchmaker too shy to hang his paintings in his own shop window, to finally doing so, and having a major collector see the work and buy it, thus launching the artist in Washington, D.C. But, in the end, Weyl would begin to copy his own, too successful landscapes.Essentially self-taught, Weyl would draw on three major influences in his art, from Hudson River School through Barbizon School to the American painter George Inness.Born near Wurttemberg, Germany in Muhlen-am-Neckar in 1837, Weyl was a watchmaker's apprentice there, eventually opening his own jewelry store in 1861 in Washington after emigrating to the United States. Condition: Good condition