Charles Stanley Reinhart

Charles S. Reinhart
Charles S. Reinhart
Born	Charles Stanley Reinhart (1844-05-16)May 16, 1844 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died	August 30, 1896(1896-08-30) (aged 52) New York, New York
Burial place	Allegheny Cemetery Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nationality	American
Known for	Illustration, painting

Charles Stanley Reinhart (May 16, 1844 - August 30, 1896) was an American painter and illustrator.

Biography

He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After having been employed in railway work and at a steel factory, he studied art at the Atelier Suisse in Paris and at the Munich Academy under Straehuber and Otto. Afterwards he settled in New York City, but spent the years 1882-1886 in Paris where he exhibited regularly in the Salon. As a young artist, he along with Edwin Austin Abbey, Robert Blum, A.B. Frost and Howard Pyle, studied under Charles Parsons, who was head of the art department at Harper Brothers in the 1870s. A collection of 247 letters, eight original drawings, and two sketchbooks can be found at Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

A contemporary reviewer said of Reinhart:

C. S. Reinhart has become widely known as one of the most versatile illustrators we have produced. Excelling as a draughtsman, he brings to his aid an active fancy that enables him vividly to realize the scenes he undertakes to represent; and he seems equally at home in the portrayal of quaint old-time scenes, or the brilliant costumes and characters of the present day, combined with forcible delineations of scenery.

Gallery

• 
  Lion Gardiner in the Pequot War from a Reinhart watercolor circa 1890
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  Illustration appearing in "Tom Grogan" (by author Francis Hopkinson Smith) installment in December 1895 issue of The Century Magazine.

Works

Among his works are:

• “Reconnoitring”
• “Caught Napping”
• “September Morning”
• “Moonshiners” (Harper's Weekly, November 2, 1878)
• “At the Ferry” (watercolor, 1878)
• “The Old Life Boat” (oil, 1880)
• "Obadiah Holmes" (1881)
• “Spanish Barber” (watercolor, 1884)
• “Mussel Fisherwoman” (oil, 1886)
• “Washed Ashore” (won a gold medal at Philadelphia in 1888; oil, 1887)
• “Rising Tide” (purchased by the government at the Paris Exposition, 1889; oil, 1888)
• “Normandy Coast”
• “Gathering Wood” (watercolor, 1887)
• “Sunday”
• “English Garden”

Black and white series

• Reichstag Sketches
• A Little Swiss Sojourn
• Americans Abroad
• Works online from Library of Congress (43)

Family

Reinhart was a nephew of painter Benjamin Franklin Reinhart.

Literary significance and criticism

It has been argued that the short story The Sculptor's Funeral by Willa Cather uses Charles Stanley Reinhart as the prototype for its protagonist. Cather wrote a feature story about the first anniversary of the death of Reinhart in 1897 when she attended the erection of his monument Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh.

References

• Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Reinhart, Charles Stanley" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

Attribution

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Reinhart, Charles Stanley". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 56.