Peter Rindisbacher 5
by Elizabeth Campbell
Peter Rindisbacher c. 1834. Self Portrait
Peter Rindisbacher set himself up in a studio in St. Louis Missouri during the latter years of his life. It was there that he earned a reputation as a miniature portrait artist. Although the image to the left is in black and white, there is a colour reproduction of both this and portraits of his parents and some of his siblings in the book The Artist was a Young Man. They are rare examples of portraits of original Selkirk Settlers.
I’ll leave you this week with another scene of life at the Red River Colony by Peter Rindisbacher:
Winter Fishing on the Ice of the Assynoibain and Red River, 1821 (National Archives of Canada)
Tags: 1821 Group, food supply, Life at the RRS, Life at the Settlement, Peter Rindisbacher, Swiss Colonists
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:49 pm
When I think of The Forks today, it is hard to imagine it like this almost 200 years ago.
December 1st, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I read that Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, was originally the site of Fort MacKay. In beginning to do some research on that, I found this:
http://flintlockandtomahawk.blogspot.com/2009/09/fort-mackay-prairie-du-chien-wisconsin.html