Albert Herter
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Albert Herter was an American painter, illustrator, muralist, and interior designer. He was born in New York City, studied at the Art Students League with James Carroll Beckwith, then in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and Fernand Cormon.
Albert Herter
Portrait of College Boys (1912), private collection.
Woman with Red Hair (1894), Smithsonian American Art Museum
Garden of the Hesperides (c.1898), private collection
Herter Brothers
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The firm of Herter Brothers,, was founded by German immigrants Gustave (1830–1898) and Christian Herter (1839–1883) in New York City. It began as a furniture and upholstery shop/warehouse, but after the Civil War became one of the first American firms to provide complete interior decoration services. With their own design office and cabinet-making and upholstery workshops, Herter Brothers could provide every aspect of interior furnishing—including decorative paneling, mantels, wall and ceiling decoration, patterned floors, carpets and draperies.
"Mr. William H. Vanderbilt's Drawing-Room," (1882).
High Museum of Art Cabinet, 1875, ebonized cherry, veneer inlays, and metallic foil decorative paper.
William Gilman Nichols, director of Herter Brothers from 1891 to 1906; portrait by his brother-in-law, Harry Watrous.
The mausoleum of Gustave Herter