Severin Roesen Still Life Flowers and Fruit 1850
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Severin Roesen Still Life Flowers and Fruit 1850
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Movie Poster Prints
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Painting - Oil Painting Print
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Severin Roesen is a painter known for his abundant fruit and flower still life’s and is today recognized as one of the major American still-life painters of the mid-nineteenth century.
He lived briefly in Philadelphia, and then moved to rural, German-American communities in Harrisburg, Huntingdon, and finally Williamsport, where he settled around 1863
A large number of Roesen's paintings were discovered in Williamsport. His pictures of nature's abundance found a ready market in the town's growing population (many of German descent) of prosperous merchants and lumbermen, who purchased them to adorn their newly built homes as well as taverns, restaurants, and hotels. One hotelier and brewer, Jacob Flock, owned more than fifty paintings by Roesen, which were presumably traded for lodging and for beer, the artist's favorite beverage. Roesen's last dated painting is from 1872, and his life after, as well as his date and place of death, remains unknown.
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March 12th, 2014
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