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 Je
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 and Christian Herter in New York City. It began as a furniture and upholstery shop/warehouse, but after the Civil War became one
Albert Herter
…then in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and Fernand Cormon. He came from an artistic family; his father, Christian Herter (1839–1883), had co-founded Herter Brothers, a prominent New York interior design and furnishings firm. Herter Brothers closed in 1906, and Albert founded Herter Looms in 1909, a tapestry and…
"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