Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Henry Mosler, United States artist, was born in Tropplowitz, Silesia and moved with his family to New York when he was 8. The family relocated to Cincinnati, the site of a substantial German-Jewish community, when Henry was about ten years old. Studying drawing by himself, he became a draughtsman for a comic paper, the Omnibus, in 1855; in 1859-1861 he studied under James Henry Beard, and in 1862-63, during the Civil War, was an art correspondent of Harper's Weekly. In 1863 he went to Düsseldorf, where for almost three years he was at the Royal Academy schools; he subsequently went to Paris, where he studied for a short time under Ernest Hébert. His "Le Retour," from the Paris Salon of 1879, was the first American picture ever bought for the Luxembourg