Frederick Ferdinand Schafer

Frederick Ferdinand Schafer was born in Braunschweig, Germany, on August 16, 1839. He appears to have emigrated to the United States in 1871, at the age of 32, where he created at least 900 paintings of American landscapes, and he died in Oakland, California, on July 18, 1927. He is well known within a community of collectors of and dealers in western art, mostly in Califo...