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c. 1885 Original JACQUES REICH Pen and Ink Portrait Drawing of Franklin Pierce

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c. 1885 Original JACQUES REICH Pen and Ink Portrait Drawing of Franklin Pierce
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Original Artist (Jacques Reich) Drawing of Franklin Pierce
(JACQUES REICH) (1852-1923). Hungarian born portrait etcher who drew many historical portraits for Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography. In 1873 he came to the U.S., in 1885 moved to New York and established a studio there.
c. 1885, Original Pen and Ink Drawing of Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), not signed or dated, by noted period Artist Jacques Reich (1852-1923), Choice Very Fine. This Artwork measuring 5.5” x 6.75”, is a Masterful Pen and Ink Portrait Drawing of Franklin Pierce attributed to Jacques Reich, accomplished on period art board in vibrant black ink. Pen and Ink Drawing of Franklin Pierce by Jacques Reich, is unsigned but definitely by Jacques Reich, whose name is noted on back, with an prior penciled date "1870s." Faint natural vertical surface crease in the art board does not touch Pierce's head. Exactly similar in style and method to another original pen and ink drawing of U.S. Grant which had originally accompanied this historic Portrait drawing. Clean and bold in eye appeal, ready for framing and display.
Jacques Reich (1852-1923) was a Hungarian portrait etcher who drew many portraits for Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography.

He first studied art in Budapest. In 1873 he came to the U.S. and continued his studies at the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 1879 he went to Paris to study for a year under the noted painters William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury.

In 1880 Reich returned to Philadelphia, and in 1885 moved to New York and established a studio there. For some years he devoted himself to portraits for Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, numbering over 2,000, and most of the portraits for Scribner’s Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. In addition he made many pen and ink illustrations for magazines and text books.

In the early nineties he turned to etchings on copper and specialized in this field for over 25 years. He etched and published some 14 portraits of American and English authors, poets and artists, and a series of portraits of Famous Americans number some 25 subjects. In addition he executed many private commissions for etched portraits, among them Whitelaw Reid, E. H. Harriman, H. H. Rogers, Nelson W. Aldrich, Charles B. Alexander and John W. Mackay.

In 1892 he married Caroline Bellinger, daughter of Emil Bellinger of Frankfurt, Germany. He then became a resident of New Dorp, Staten Island, and lived there until his death on July 8, 1923.