Charles Stanley Reinhart

• Name — Charles S. Reinhart • Birth Name — Charles Stanley Reinhart • Born — 16 May 1844 • Birthplace — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Died — 30 August 1896 • Place of death — New York, New York • Resting Place — Allegheny Cemetery Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Field — Illustration, painting

C.S. Reinhart was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After having been employed in railway work and at a steel factory, he studied art at the Atelier Suisse in Paris and at the Munich Academy under Straehuber and Otto. Afterwards he settled in New York City, but spent the years 1882–86 in Paris where he exhibited regularly in the Salon. As a young artist, he along with Edwin Austin Abbey, Robert Blum, A.B. Frost and Howard Pyle, studied under Charles Parsons, who was head of the art department at Harper Brothers in the 1870s. A collection of 247 letters, eight original drawings, and two sketchbooks can be found at Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. A contemporary reviewer said of Reinhart: • Illustration — Washed Ashore (1887), engraving A principal painting, Washed Ashore, depicts the varied reactions of observers to a drowned sailor on a beach. It earned him an Honorable Mention at the 1887 Paris Salon, and the 1888 Temple Gold Medal from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Vincent van Gogh. Reinhart was also one of several artists selected and commissioned by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing to design the artwork for the Educational Series silver certificates produced in the late 19th century. The notes depict various allegorical motifs and are considered by some numismatists to be the most beautiful monetary designs ever produced by the United States.

Among his works are: • "Reconnoitring" • "Caught Napping" • "September Morning" • "Moonshiners" (Harper's Weekly, November 2, 1878) • "At the Ferry" (watercolor, 1878) • "The Old Life Boat" (oil, 1880) • "Obadiah Holmes" (1881) • "Spanish Barber" (watercolor, 1884) • "Mussel Fisherwoman" (oil, 1886) • "Washed Ashore" (won a gold medal at Philadelphia in 1888; oil, 1887) • "Rising Tide" (purchased by the government at the Paris Exposition, 1889; oil, 1888) • "Normandy Coast" • "Gathering Wood" (watercolor, 1887) • "Sunday" • "English Garden"

• Reichstag Sketches • A Little Swiss Sojourn • Americans Abroad • Works online from Library of Congress (43) • Illustration — Lion Gardiner in the Pequot War from a Reinhart watercolor circa 1890 • Illustration — Illustration appearing in "Tom Grogan" (by author Francis Hopkinson Smith) installment in December 1895 issue of The Century Magazine.