Henry Mortikar (Mortecai) Rosenberg (1858 - 1947) "The Sentry" Signed and dated (1932) lower left. Oil on Canvas.Artist to the Mobile, Alabama Museum of Art. Henry Rosenberg was an American painter and print maker during the end of the 19th C. and beginning of the 20th C. He was recognized as an impressionist, a tonalist and a symbolist painter. His artistic training started in Chicago where he was to be an early member of the Academy of design. He then went to Munich to study under Frank Duveneck at the Royal Academy. He then studied in Florence and Venice, Ital where he learned the art of etching from none other than James Abbott McNeil in 1880. They boarded and worked together. He painted and learned from William Merritt Chase in Venice. He was strongly influenced in Venice by his artist friend Arnold Bocklin. For 10 years he was a recognized painter at Pont-Aven, Brittany. Here he painted alongside Paul Gauguin in 1886 with whom he befriended. He studied or worked with many important artist of his day.Henry Rosenberg was a principal of the Victoria school of art in Halifax, Nova Scotia, from 1898 to 1910. He also was an honorary president of the Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts. He lived in Alabama towards the end of his life for health reasons. After his death in 1947 the Museum of Mobile, Alabama. Was granted the Rosenberg estate, consisting of his life?s collection of paintings and prints. Making this the Mobile Museum of Arts first acquisition.Provenance: Deaccessioned from Museum to benefit their collections, care and acquisition fund.Sight Size: 17.25 x 23.25 in.Overall Framed Size: 23 x 29 in.