Louis Nicholas Adolphe Rinck
(French, 1802-1895, act. New Orleans 1840-1871)

"General De Roi", 1855

oil on canvas
signed and dated lower left.
Framed.
42" x 33", framed 48" x 39"

Provenance: Descended in the family of the sitter.

Literature: Listed and illustrated in Louisiana Portraits, ed. by Mrs. Thomas Bruns, The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Louisiana, 1975, p. 281.

Notes: Born in Metz, France, Louis Nicholas Adolphe Rinck studied at the Berlin Academy and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His training combined the refined draftsmanship of the French Neoclassical style of portraiture with the darker tonalities favored by German artists.
In December of 1840, Rinck traveled by ship to New Orleans where he advertised himself as an "ami de M. Vaudechamp" in The New Orleans Bee. During the early 1850s, Rinck and his wife Margarette owned a shop located on the first floor of the Pontalba Building in the French Quarter. Rinck remained in New Orleans for over 30 years and became renowned for his portraiture.

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