Max Weyl

Born December 1, 1837, in Mühlen-am-Neckar, Germany. Immigrated with his family to Williamsport, Pa., 1853, where he was an itinerant watch and clock repairer. Lived in Washington, D.C., 1861–1914. Opened a jewelry shop at 3rd Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, 1862. Began to paint. Sold first painting to Samuel H. Kauffmann, publisher of the Star, 1870. Devoted fulltime to painting, 1878. First exhibition and sale of landscapes, 1879. In Europe, 1879–80. Visited galleries, studied art in Paris, Munich, Vienna, and Venice. Had a studio with Richard Norris Brooke in Vernon Row at 10th and Pennsylvania, 1882–92; and in the "Barbizon Studio" building, 1892–1903, on 17th and Pennsylvania. Had annual exhibitions and sales at V. G. Fischer Galleries. Retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1907. An Indian Summer Day purchased by friends for the old National Gallery of Art. Died July 6, 1914, in Washington, D.C.

Andrew J. Cosentino and Henry H. Glassie The Capital Image: Painters in Washington, 1800–1915 (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1983)