Manfred Trautschold

Adolf Manfred Trautschold (27 March 1854 – 13 December 1921) was a German genre painter and lithographer. He worked in England and then in New Jersey.

Adolf Manfred Trautschold
Born	(1854-03-27)March 27, 1854 Giessen, Germany
Died	December 13, 1921(1921-12-13) (aged 67) Queens, New York City, U.S.
Nationality	German
Occupation(s)	Painter, lithographer
Notable work	Bedford Park (1882)
Movement	Genre painting
Spouse	Marguerite De Hees
Children	2 (Reginald William Trautschold, Gordon Manfred Trautschold)
Relatives	Wilhelm Trautschold (father), Hermann Trautschold (uncle), Sophia Johnston (mother), James Muspratt (grandfather)

Biography

Tower House and Queen Anne's Grove, Bedford Park, 1882.^[1]

Adolf Manfred Trautschold was born in Giessen, Germany to Wilhelm Trautschold^[2] and his British wife Sophia Johnston, an illegitimate daughter of the industrial chemist James Muspratt.^[3] His uncle was the palaeontologist Hermann Trautschold. Little is known of his training in art. He married the Belgian Marguerite De Hees, daughter of a merchant, in Dover, Kent on 22 August 1878. They had two sons, Reginald William Trautschold and Gordon Manfred Trautschold.^[4] He contributed a painting to an 1882 book Bedford Park,^[5] celebrating the then-fashionable garden suburb of that name.^[6][7] In 1887 the family emigrated to the US, settling in Montclair, New Jersey.^[8] The family home became known as an artists' colony.^[9]

He died in Queens, New York City.