Claim: Friedrich Richard Petri was born on July 31, 1824 in Germany and went under the tutelage of Adrian Ludwig Richter and Julius Hübner when he was enrolled at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.
Evidence: Friedrich Richard Petri was born on July 31, 1824, in Dresden, Germany to master shoemaker Heinrich Petri and his wife Juliane Dorothea (Weise) Petri. At age fourteen, Petri was enrolled at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts where he would remain for eleven years under the tutelage and guidance of Adrian Ludwig Richter and Julius Hübner. Friedrich Richard Petri (1824–1857) was a German-born Texas painter whose works recorded life in the original German immigrant settlements, and portrayed Native American tribes in family settings.