Sarah Wilhelmina Wenzler (active 1861 – 1872) was an American painter of still lifes.
Little is known of Wenzler's life or career. She is known to have exhibited her still-life paintings at the National Academy of Design, the Boston Athenaeum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts throughout the 1860s,[1] and she is recorded as having lived in New York City;[2] She is known to have specialized in depictions of hanging bunches of grapes.[3] One of these, Hanging Bunch of Grapes, an oil on canvas of 1867, is owned by the National Gallery of Art; it is signed "S. W. Wenzler".[4] Another of this painter's pieces, "Peaches and Pears on a Wooden Ledge", closed at Christie's on December 3, 2009 for $4780.[5] Few other paintings by Wenzler are known, and little else of her biography has been traced.[1]
- ^ a b Susan Danly (1 January 1998). For Beauty and for Truth: The William and Abigail Gerdts Collection of American Still Life : Catalogue. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College. ISBN 978-0-914337-19-5.
- ^ Newark Museum; William H. Gerdts (1965). Women Artists of America, 1707-1964: Exhibition Catalog The Newark Museum, April 2-May 16, 1965. The Museum.
- ^ Franklin Kelly; Robert Wilson Torchia (1 January 1999). American paintings of the nineteenth century. National Gallery of Art. ISBN 9780894682155.
- ^ "Hanging Bunch of Grapes". www.nga.gov. 1867. Retrieved May 9, 2019.
- ^ Christie, James. "Auction of Peaches and Pears on a Wooden Ledge".