Manfred Trautschold

Adolf Manfred Trautschold (27 March 1854 – 13 December 1921) was a German genre painter and lithographer. He worked in England and then in New Jersey.

 Biography 

Tower House and Queen Anne's Grove, Bedford Park, 1882.[1]

Adolf Manfred Trautschold was born in Giessen, Germany to Wilhelm Trautscholdhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Trautschold#cite_note-2 and his British wife Sophia Johnston, an illegitimate daughter of the industrial chemist James Muspratt.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Trautschold#cite_note-Reed2016-3 His uncle was the palaeontologist Hermann Trautschold. Little is known of his training in art. He married the Belgian Marguerite De Hees, daughter of a merchant, in Dover, Kent on 22 August 1878. They had two sons, Reginald William Trautschold and Gordon Manfred Trautschold.[4] He contributed a painting to an 1882 book Bedford Park,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Trautschold#cite_note-Dollman_et_al_1882-5 celebrating the then-fashionable garden suburb of that name.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Trautschold#cite_note-Fletcher_2016-6 In 1887 the family emigrated to the US, settling in Montclair, New Jersey.[8] The family home became known as an artists' colony.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Trautschold#cite_note-ShepardFarrelly2013-9
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He died in Queens, New York City.
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