Johan Georg Schwartze

. He was a painter of portraits and historical themes.

As a child he left Amsterdam for Philidelphia, where he was taught by Emanuel Leutze. In 1838 he returned to Europe and spent six years at the Düsseldorf Academy under Von Schadow and Sohn. At the same time, he took private lessons from the landscape-painter Lessing. [cite book | last = Marius | first = G. Hermine | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Dutch Art in the Nineteenth Century | publisher = Alexander Moring Ltd | date = 1908 | location = | pages = | url = http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dutch_Art_in_the_Nineteenth_Century | doi = | id = | isbn = ]

References

* [http://books.google.com/books?id=RQYFAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA155&lpg=RA1-PA155&dq=johan+georg+schwartze&source=web&ots=xvOiWbaGvc&sig=871OGwWXlaxpC4ZYNO816BEMPjk Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings]