Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
Rinck, Louis Nicolas Adolphe |
Notes |
Louis Nicholas Adolphe Rinck was born in Metz, France on February 26, 1802. Little is known about his early life except that he studied at the Berlin Academy in Berlin, Germany and later the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, France. Rinck moved to New Orleans in 1840 to become at portraitist and remained in the city for thirty years, occasionally making trips during the outbreak of the Civil War. His wife Margarette owned a shop that sold imported goods in the Pontalba townhouse facing Jackson Square in the French Quarter. Rinck also purchased a large property in Algiers that he operated as a teaching farm for disadvantaged children to learn scientific agriculture and animal husbandry as well as painting, drawing, French, Latin, and dancing. He published a plan titled "Happiness to Millions" in an attempt to win support for his teaching farm from the Louisiana legislature, but to no avail. He gave up in 1871 and announced his intention of moving to Europe, but only made it to New York City where he lived for 25 years before dying in 1895. |
Nationality |
French-American |
Occupation |
Portraitist |
