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Albert Francis King

Albert Francis King (1854 - 1945) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  Albert King is known for Trompe still life, portrait and landscape painting.

Revered as one of Pittsburgh's premier portrait artists well into his eighties, Albert F. King is now remembered mostly for his meticulously realistic still life works, such as watermelons with a wedge missing, apples falling from a basket or strawberries spilling out of a chip basket.

Born in 1854, King was the product of Catholic parents forced to flee Germany to escape religious persecution. When they arrived in Pittsburgh, they changed their last name from Konig to King to avoid any further religious bias against Catholics. As an artist, their son was primarily self-taught, although he did study for a time under fellow Scalp Level School* member Martin Leisser.

Much in demand as a portrait painter by the prominent citizens of Pittsburgh, he painted many notables including Stephen Foster, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick—although he rarely showed those works in public.

Except for a period of two years spent in Omaha, Nebraska in the mid-1930s, King worked i   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3028 characters.]  Artist bio

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