Charles Feodor Welsh, birth name Karl Friedrich Christian Welsh (* 18 February 1828 in Wesel; † May 6, 1904 in Dresden), was a German landscape painter and illustrator.The first artistic training was given to Welsh – just like his younger brother Julius Maria Jakob Welsh (1832 – 1899), who later became a decoration painter – through his father, the painter and restorer Johann Friedrich Welsh. In the year 1846 he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. There he visited the Landschafterklasse of Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. 1] [2] He then went to Brussels, The Hague and Paris, where he studied with Félix Ziem and Alexandre Calame. He then went to North America for eight years and then returned to Europe to live in Rome from 1866. During this time, his students included John Singer Sargent, among others. [3] He left Rome 1874 and then travelled to Egypt, and in addition he stayed for a long time in Venice, Paris, Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden, Frankfurt am Main and Dresden. In Dresden he died in the year 1904.Among other things, he illustrated books, including two luxury volumes about Egypt by Georg Eberswalde and a magnificent edition of Goethe´s works for the German publishing house in Stuttgart. In the years 1871 and 1873 he exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts. [4] He partly signed his works with F.C. Welsh.His art-historical significance derives mainly from the fact that he taught at the beginning thirteen-year-old John Singer Sargent between (presumably) 1869 to 1871. Sargent parents lived as American emigrants in continental Europe. Her humble income and her unsteady life, where she changed residence every few months, meant that Sargent and his sisters received little formal education. From 1869 they stayed in Rome for several years during the winter period, where Sargent became a pupil of the Welsh. Sargent biographer Stanley Olson, however, notes that Welsh is the nightmare of a biographer, because little is documented about his life and the relationship between Welsh and Sargent is partly due to family tradition.It is also possible that Welsch Sargent taught only during a stay of the family in Florence. Sargent´s father, FitzWilliam Sargent, speaks in his letters only of a Germanico-American artist of reputation - a German-American artist of importance.John Sargent Singer later noted that his lessons consisted primarily in Welsch making his studio available. He spent a lot of time getting beer and wine from the nearby shops for Welsch. [6] Only in the morning would he have faithfully traced his master´s watercolors. is certain, however, that Welsch and Sargent undertook a joint hiking tour through Tyrol in the summer of 1871.

Literature : Welsch, Charles Feodor. In: Hans Vollmer (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. "General Artist Lexicon" by Thieme/Becker, Leiptig, 1999.

Inscription: signed and dated Capri 1884 lower left.

Technique: oil on canvas. Original period gilt frame..

Measurements: unframed w 21 7/8" x h 14" (55,5 x 35,5 cm); framed w 31 1/4" x h 23 1/2" (79,5 x 59,5 cm)

Condition: in good condition, no paintlosses, original canvas.