"Lovers in the Park” by German/French Artist Ferdinand Heilbuth

Ferdinand Heilbuth was a German-born French painter. He was born in Hamburg in 1826 and died in Paris in 1889, having become a French citizen in 1876. Heilbuth is buried in Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. This genre painter whose talent has the characteristics of nobility, the liveliness of color and accent in expression, exhibited many times at the Royal Academy in London. His works were also shown in the Grosvenor Gallery London, as well as at the Boston Athenaeum. Besides London and Paris, the artist had working stints in Antwerp, Munich and Rome. Heilbuth won Medals at the Paris salon in 1857, 1858 and 1861. It is interesting to note that Vincent van Gogh was an admirer of Ferdinand’s work.