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Jacob Maentel

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Jacob Maentel (1763 - 1863) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Indiana / Germany.  Jacob Maentel is known for Naive portrait, figure, interiors.

Born in Kassel, Germany, Jacob Maentel is believed to have trained as a physician and worked as a farmer and mercenary and served in Napoleon's army as his Secretary in Westphalia.  By 1797, he was a portrait painter living near the harbor in Baltimore, but his earliest portrait is dated 1807.  However, little is known of the actualities of his life. His birth date is allegedly 1763, but nowhere is it mentioned that he who died in 1863 was a centenarian.

Between 1800 and 1840, it has been documented that he was active in Lancaster and Lebanon Counties, Pennsylvania.  But the fact there are no legal documents such as tax records, wills, deeds or birth certificates in those areas is just part of the many mysterious aspects of this man's life. (Zellman 71) However, The Whitney Museum of American Art owns a painting of "John and Caterina Bickel of Jonestown, Pennsylvania", by Maentel.  This was painted between 1820 and 1825, and as stated in the Lebanon County Hi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2069 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Jacob Maentel

   Publications  Book References:  27
Magazine References:  5

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5 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Jacob Maentel
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Antiques 100 Top Treasures November 2006 Masello, David Yes
The Magazine Antiques American Collection in New Jersey April 2005 Spriggs, Remi Yes
Art & Antiques 100 Top Treasures November 2002 Masello, Page, Goldstein Yes
The Magazine Antiques Current and Coming December 2001 Ledes, Allison Echardt No
The Magazine Antiques Nadelman's... Museum of Folk Art October 1994 Stillinger, Elizabeth Yes
27 Book References for Jacob Maentel
Year Author Title Pages Color
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2001 Sheets, Georg R Pennsylvania Heritage: Diversity in Art, Dance, Music, Food and Customs 160 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Lipman, Jean; Alice Winchester The Flowering of American Folk Art, 1776-1876 288 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1988 Rumford, Beatrix American Folk Paintings Paintings and Drawings Other Than Portraits 449 Yes
1986 Finch, Christopher American Watercolors 312 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1981 Rumford, Beatrix American Folk Portraits from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center 295 Yes
1980 Lipman, Jean and Tom Armstrong American Folk Painters of Three Centuries 233 Yes
1979 Bishop, Robert Folk Painters of America 255 Yes
1979 Ericson, Jack T Folk Art in America Painting and Sculpture 275 No
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Hirschl & Adler Galleries American Folk Art Nov. 26-Dec. 29, 1977 44 Yes
1978 Woodward, Richard B American Folk Painting William E Wiltshire Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 110 Yes
1977 Barter, Judith; Lynn E Springer Currents of Expansion Painting in the Midwest, 1820-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 189 No
1976 Tillou, Peter Where Liberty Dwells 19th Century Art by the American People
(Exhibition catalog)		 114 Yes
1975 Ebert, John and Katherine American Folk Painters 225 Yes
1972 Price, Vincent The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art 320 Yes
1971 Goodrich, Lloyd/Mary Black What Is American in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1970 Hirschl & Adler Galleries Plain and Fancy A Survey of American Folk Art 72 Yes
1967 Artist in America, Editors The Artist in America 256 Yes
1966 Black, Mary/Jean Lipman American Folk Painting 244 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1954 Peat, Wilbur D Pioneer Painters of Indiana 254 No
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