ARTIST: ATTRIBUTED TO Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Bauerle (Germany, 1831 - 1912)
NAME: Grandmother's Birthday
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Relined. Missing a few flakes of paint. Minor stable craquelure. Some scattered inpaintings.
SIGHT SIZE: 26 1/2 x 37 1/2 inches / 68 x 96 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available)
SIGNATURE: lower left
NAME VARIANTS: Carl Bowerley
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Bauerle was born June 5, 1831 in Endersbach, and died August 26th 1912 in Aichelberg in the Black Forest. He was a noted portrait painter in German courts, and later at the British court of Queen Victoria. A special focus was children's portraits.About Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Bauerle little is published. He led an eventful life by his faith, which was Pietism, and was known for his artistic talent, his love for children and also for personal setbacks.Born in Endersbach in Rems, Kingdom of Wurttemberg, Charles Bauerle moved in 1836 at the age of 5 years with his parents on a sailing ship in the United States of America from where his parents then lived as a farmer. There he learned the trade of the talented young engraver with his uncle in Cincinnati.A grant from King William I of Wurttemberg provided training for him as portrait and genre painter. As a portrait painter, he worked for the Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, who recommended him to royal relatives such as Albert Edward of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1841-1910, known as "Bertie"), the Prince of Wales (Albert Edward Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince of Wales) and later King Edward VII of Great Britain.