Henry Ritter

Henry Ritter (1816–1853) was a Canadian genre painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

Biography

He was born at Montreal. He studied under Gröger in Hamburg and under Karl Ferdinand Sohn at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Among his characteristic and finely colored episodes from the life of sailors and fishermen, showing the influence of his friend and teacher Rudolf Jordan (1810–1887), the most prominent are:

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