Herbert Gustave Schmalz was a painter, mainly religious subjects in a Pre-Raphaelite style. His father was a merchant, and later Prussian consul in Newcastle, where Schmalz was born. His maternal grandfather was the painter James Wilson Carmichael.
At the end of WW1 he dropped the Schmalz and adopted his mother's maiden name, Carmichael. Died London.
Friends with William Holman Hunt, Val Prinsep and Frederic Leighton, all near neighbours.
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Herbert Schmalz
Close examination shows that the child is holding a painter's palette which b...
Painter, architect, and designer of gardens and interior furnishings. Baptised in Yorkshire, on 1 January 1686. Began as a sign and coach painter. While on the Grand Tour he met his chief patron an...
Person, Architecture, Art, Craft / Design, Gardens / Agriculture
Portrait painter. His set of portraits of Kit-Cat Club members is on display in the National Portrait Gallery.
From:johncoulthart: ". . the model for Eros was one Angelo Colarossi whose father was also named Angelo Colarossi and was the model for Leighton’s python wrangler. Colarossi Snr, an Italian immigr...
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