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Herbert Schmalz

    

 Zenobia

    

The Return 
From Calvary

    

Christ  at  Bethany
(House at Bethany)

    
 

    Resurrection
    Morn

    
 

    Great
    Awakening

    
 

    Sir
    Galahad
 
    
 
    
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Herbert Schmalz Biography
Son of a successful merchant and German Consul, Herbert Schmalz was born in Ryton-On-
Tyne near Newcastle in 1856. The family had emigrated to England in 1840's from Dantzig in 
Northern Germany. Schmalz was born into a family not unfamiliar with artistic merit as his 
maternal grandfather was the famous maritime artist John Wilson Carmichael (the surname he would 
later change his name to). Contrary to his grandfather's formative experience (his love of sea painting 
resulted from being press-ganged at the age of fifteen and shipped off to the Peninsula War as a 
cabin boy), Schmalz's artistic development was relatively conventional. He moved to London when 
he was seventeen and soon after joining the South Kensington Art School, he became a student 
at the Royal Academy. After a short period of study in Antwerp, Schmalz settled in Kensington 
and began establishing himself within the Victorian art scene.