Five Portraits on Panel by Jacob Eichholtz, 1776-1842 Rebecca J. Beal If we have wondered how Jacob Eichholtz could have painted so many portraits recorded, we are not reminded that portraits continue to turn up demanding consideration, study and occasionally an attribution to this artist. Sharp

Furniture Masterpieces Jacob Rachman EBENISTE SUISSE of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, His Son and His Grandson. By CARL W. DREPPERD In the American Collector for October, 1945 For a considerable number of years, the discriminating an- tiques collectors of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, have noted the

brewer in the town. Henry's mother was a daughter of Leonard Eichholtz; therefore, Henry E. Leman was a nephew of the illustrious artist, Jacob Eichholtz.2 The name Leman was and still is pronounced in three ways. Some refer to the name as Lehman while others employ the pro- nunciation Leaman. A personal

century. His father, Jacob, who died in 1835, was a farmer near Lancaster and a brewer in the town. He had served as a private in the Pequea rangers during the Revolutionary War. Henry's mother was a daughter of Leonard Eichholtz. Therefore, Henry E. Leman was a nephew of our illustrious artist, Jacob

Legislature then in Lancaster, which was the State Capital, that upon the death of her husband she was proposed as a candidate for the vacant office. According to the Lancaster Examiner of February 16, 1842, her obituary notice stated that "Although this application was a novel one, the government was at

county in 1737. I have not been able to ascertain where he was born, but he came from Richmond, Yorkshire, England. It is probable that he came to the county after the removal of the county courts from Postlethwaite's. He was commissioned as a Justice of the Peace on November 22, 1738, and a second time

Jacob Eichholtz — Life and Paintings By HELEN W. HENDERSON When, last September, I received from your librarian an in- vitation to address the Lancaster County Historical Society on that distinguished Lancaster painter, Jacob Eichholtz, I am afraid that, the time being far distant, I agreed without

Jacob Eichholtz Points The Way By DR. CORNELIUS WEYGANDT Jacob Eichholtz has never been without honor in his own country. Here in Lancaster men have been proud to have portraits by him in their homes, they have known their forebears better because Eichholtz painted them. So it is, too, round about

Jacob Eshleman Warfel, Painter. This promising artist, the son of John and Maria Warfel, was born in Paradise township, Lancaster county, on July 21, 1826. He developed a natural inclination towards art at an early age; so much so, indeed, that his youthful efforts in drawing and painting drew the

. About the middle of May, 1924, there appeared in the window of the resi- dence of the late Jacob Deichler, 413 West Walnut Street, a card stating that household goods were for sale and inspection, and it was found, however, that these wares consisted of about 100 oil paintings of the deceased artist