Carl Haag
Carl Haag ( born April 20, 1820 Erlangen, † January 24, 1915 in Oberwesel ) was an English watercolor, miniature and portrait painter and etcher German origin.
Life
With 16 years Hague in 1836 at the Nuremberg art school student of Albert Christoph Reindel. Supported and encouraged by his teacher, he was 1844-1846 at the Art Academy in Munich student of Peter von Cornelius. Already at that time he achieved initial success as a portraitist.
1847 Hague took a study trip to the UK, where he discovered the watercolor painting in London for themselves. 1847/48 lived and worked in Rome Hague. In the summer of 1848 he returned to London and became a student at the Royal Academy of Arts. There, the Duke of Saxe- Coburg -Gotha became aware of him on the occasion of an exhibition, and set him shortly afterwards Queen Victoria before. From this he won several contracts, inter alia, the familiar picture evening at Balmoral. During this time, Hague also became a British citizen.
Between 1852 and 1857 Hague was a member of the German Artists Association in Rome. In the following years Hague made several traveling extensively through Egypt, Palestine and Syria, and devoted himself almost exclusively from that point on oriental subjects. 1867 Hague was founded in Hampstead ( London), a large studio, which he embellished the " oriental style ".