tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28447615.post-85194997577277786882007-02-15T10:32:00.000-08:002007-03-15T10:33:19.791-07:00He was born in the barracks of Landau, Germany (in the Rhine Palatinate), the son of a musician in the 9th regiment Bavarian band. His mother took him to New York in 1846. He studied art there for about a year with Alfred Fredericks and Theodore Kaufmann and at the school of the National Academy of Design. After school (at the age of 15), he started working in 1855 as a draftsman for Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper; three years afterwards for Harper's Weekly.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/28447615-8519499757727778688?l=unclebrian.blogspot.com'/></div>Unclenoreply@blogger.com