Toby Edward Rosenthal

Toby Edward Rosenthal ( born March 15, 1848 in New Haven, Connecticut, † December 23, 1917 in Munich) was an American genre and portrait painter.

Rosenthal went to Munich in 1865 to the Academy, was formed initially in the studio of Karl Raupp, since 1868 in school Piloty. After several genre pictures painted, of which Sebastian Bach was bought with his family at the morning service (1870 ) from the municipal museum in Leipzig, he interrupted his work for a short time by a trip to the homeland.

On his return to Munich, he painted after a ballad Alfred Tennyson The beautiful Elaine (1874 ) and some humorous genre pictures, such as: He who laughs last, laughs best (two counterparts ), and the alarmed girls' (1877 ), where in 1883 the Court on the escaped nun Constance de Beverley after Walter Scott's " Marmion " (for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and 1887 A dance lesson our grandmothers followed, in which he joined at the effeminate elegance of the salon painter.