Description
By Franklin D. Scott. (Chicago: Swedish Pioneer Historical Society, 1963). Cloth, 173 pp.
This book describes the accomplished Swedish painter, Adolph Ulric Wertmüller (1751-1811), who painted not only Marie Antoinette in Europe but George Washington in America. Wertmüller emigrated to America in 1794 and eventually became a gentleman farmer near the Delaware River 20 miles south of Philadelphia.