biography of Julius Theodore BUSCH (1821-1858)

Birth place: Dresden, Germany

Death place: at sea

Addresses: Hartford, CT

Profession: Landscape painter, teacher of drawing

Exhibited: Am. Inst., 1848 and 1849; Hartford County Agricult. Soc. Fair, 1851

Comments: Came to America c.1848 and, after a stay in NYC, moved to Hartford, Conn., in 1850. A popular teacher of drawing, he was one of several landscapists in Hartford during the 1850s (see Eliphalet Terry, Henry Bryant, Joseph Ropes).

Sources: G&W; French, Art and Artists in Conn.; NYCD 1848-49; Hartford BD 1851, CD 1856-58; Am. Inst. Cats., 1848-49. More recently, see Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 1: 105-6.