Charles Frederic Ulrich

In the land of Promise, 1884

Typesetter at the Joh. Enschedé printing shop in Haarlem, 1884

Charles Frederic Ulrich (1858 in New York City – 1908 in Berlin) was an American painter.

According to the RKD he worked in the Netherlands ca. 1890.^[1] He attended the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany, as did William Merritt Chase, who like him, was influenced by Dutch Golden Age painting and who has been documented as painting his portrait.^[2] He was discovered by Thomas B. Clarke, a lace and linen manufacturer in New York who became a collector of contemporary American art. Ulrich painted his portrait in gratitude after his painting In the Land of Promise, Castle Garden was shown at the National Academy of Design, where it won the National Academy's first Thomas B. Clarke Prize for Best American Figure Composition.^[3]

References

1. Charles Frederic Ulrich in the RKD
2. [William Merritt Chase: Portraits in oil By Ronald G. Pisano, William Merritt Chase, D. Frederick Baker, 2007, p13
3. Portrait of Clarke by Ulrich in the National Portrait Gallery

• In the Land of Promise at the Corcoran
• Charles Frederic Ulrich on Artnet