Nice Ernest Rost antique etching. 28 x 18 inches. Provenance: private owner.
Biography: 1867 - 1940. Ernest Christian Rost was born January 20, 1867*, at Mt. Vernon, N.Y. He was the son of Christian Wilhelm and Minna M. Rost. Christian Rost was a German-born artist, having studied in Paris and London. He was highly regarded for his fine wood and copper engravings -- renderings of governmental buildings on bank notes and official documents; images on early postage stamps (see Museum of the United States Essays and Proofs; 3-cent stamp); and earlier for his documenting the Crystal Palace and other exhibits of the 1850 World's Fair in London. He was also admired for his engraved landscapes, claimed by some contemporaries to be among the finest they'd seen. He married his cousin Minna M. Rost, who earned the distinction as being the proprietor of a very unique and successful military insignia manufacturing company on 13th Street, after the couple settled in New York City. Minna's business particularly flourished during the Civil War.Ernest was the fourth of six children, and the only son surviving into maturity. Christian Rost was acknowledged as being a very patient teacher. Ernest received much technical grounding and encouragement from his father and his mother as well.

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