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He is shown in the 1901 Census as living at 67 Burnt Ash Hill, Lee, London. He lived briefly in Co. Cork in
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He exhibited 39 paintings at the Royal
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Wehrschmidt was born in Cuyahoga County near Cleveland, Ohio, USA in 1861, the son of a German immigrant tailor. He was active in Cleveland's art scene and by the age of eighteen, had already exhibited his works locally. In 1882, he met Hubert von Herkomer, who was having a ten week tour of
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His work is in the permanent collections of The London
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Wehrschmidt was living at Rose Cottage, Bushey. He was a portrait painter in oils; mezzotint artist, having created mezzotints for John Everett Millais); and an illustrator and engraver. He, along with Joseph Syddall (1864-1942), and Ernest Borough Johnson (1866-1949), produced the
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Wehrschmidt is best known for his portrait in The National Portrait Gallery, London, of the Arctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott (Scott of the Antarctic) whom Wehrschmidt painted in 1905. He is also noted for seven of twenty-five illustrations in Thomas Hardy's novel, Tess of the
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He married his wife Marie Louise Isabel Norie, a descendant of
Scottish painter James Norie 1684 - 1757, whom he met at the school in Bushey on 22 July 1890 at St. Mary's Cathedral Midlothian. She was also a student of Herkomer and an accomplished watercolorist and painter. She exhibited two
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They had six children, of whom, two of his sons (twins) were killed in action in WWI. He became a naturalized
British Subject in 1890, and due to the anti-German feeling common in Britain around the time of the first World War, Anglicised his name to Veresmith.
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Academy, Royal Water-Colour Society, and the Royal Engravers, and was the author of Etchings and Mezzotint Engraving, published in 1892, and of an autobiography, My School and my Gospel, 1907.
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Wehrschmidt took him up on the invitation and served as a teacher and eventually co-owner of the school where he remained until 1896, a year in which Von Herkomer was knighted by Queen Victoria.
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