biography of Peter SCHMIDT (1829-1866)

Birth place: Baden, Germany

Addresses: New Orleans, 1859-67

Profession: Portrait painter, illustrator

Comments: Also illustrated sheet music covers.

Sources: G&W; Cline, Art and Artists in New Orleans," 42; New Orleans CD 1859-67. More recently, see Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 341, Where his year of birth is given as 1829 and his death in 1866."