Jacob Eichholtz (1776–1842)

• Was a  was an early American painter.
• Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in a family of prosperous Pennsylvania Germans.
• He spent most of his professional life in Philadelphia.
• Eichholtz being mainly self-taught as an artist.
• He is known to have painted over 800 portraits over the course of 35 years.
• Hundreds of his works are housed in art museums, historical societies, and private collections throughout the United States.
• Jacob with his brothers attended the English School at Franklin College in Lancaster where he learned the three Rs — reading. 
• He also took lessons from a sign painter since his parents noticed his inclination to draw, but eventually he was apprenticed as a coppersmith.
• Eichholtz married Catharine Hatz Michael, a young widow with two children; they had four children of their own.
• In 1818, he married Catharine Trissler of Lancaster, and they had nine children.
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