biography of Paul EMERT (1826-1867)

Birth place: Bern, Switzerland

Death place: Honolulu, HI

Addresses: NYC, active 1845-49; California; Hawaii

Profession: Panoramic artist

Work: Bancroft Lib., Univ. Calif., Berkeley; Hawaiian Hist. Soc., Honolulu

Comments: Listed as a painter in 1845, as an artist in 1848-49. He went West when gold was discovered in Calif. and was probably one of the artists of Emmert & Penfield's Original Panorama of the Gold Mines," shown in NYC and elsewhere in 1850-51. He was in Honolulu in 1853, making sketches which were published as lithographs in San Francisco. He returned to the islands in 1854 to open a lithographic business.

Sources: G&W; NYCD 1845, 1848-49; N.Y. Herald, March 10, 1850, St. Louis Intelligencer, Dec. 28, 1850, July 17, 1851. More recently, see Hughes, Artists of California, 169, who spells his last name Emmert; Forbes, Encounters with Paradise. "