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Paul Meyerheim (1842 – 1915) was a German artist known for his animal paintings, particularly lions and monkeys, as well as his paintings of humans interacting with them. Paul Friedrich Meyerheim – 1891 Here, a performer does a sideshow trick of giving a treat from her mouth to a monkey. This painting will be sold at an upcoming Sotheby’s auction in New York, and it can be previewed between January 25th and 31st. Here’s the preliminary study for the painting above. I did a previous post about how Meyerheim taught animal painting in Berlin. Meyerheim was fascinated by interactions between humans and animals. Here he paints a woman reaching through the bars of a circus wagon to caresses the male lion as the lioness snarls in jealousy. Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim “Guten Morgen, lieber Vater” (Good morning, dear Father) 1858 Meyerheim’s father Friedrich was also a painter. The younger Meyerheim spent time in Paris studying the work of Courbet and the Barbizon painters, but his closest fri

Here’s a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the maquette from the painting of the mountain citadel yesterday . The maquette is made from mat board and foam core board for the buildings. The mountain landforms are made from plaster-impregnated burlap draped over chunks of styrofoam. The maquette has been exhibited in several museum exhibitions such as the Smithsonian and the Norton Museum of Art. — More about reference maquettes in my book Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist