Artist/Maker

Welfare, Christian Daniel

Place Made

Date Made

1825

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

HOA 22 1/8; WOA 17 7/8

Accession Number

P-648

Description

DESCRIPTION: A painting of Elizabeth Hege Reuz (may also be spelled Rights) and son Zach. In gold ornamented frame.

Elizabeth Hege Reuz (pronounced Rights) was born 23 August 1794 and died 25 August 1864. She married Matthew Reuz (subject of Painting P-649) in 1819, he was the inn keeper, a glove maker and dyer. Their son, Zacharius (?) was born 23 October 1822 and died 8 February 1867.

History

LABEL NOTES: Elizabeth Hege Reuz (pronounced Rights) was born 23 August 1794 and died 25 August 1864. She married Matthew Reuz (subject of Painting P-649) in 1819, he was the inn keeper, a glove maker and dyer. Their son, Zacharius (?) was born 23 October 1822 and died 8 February 1867.

Artist Biography

ARTIST BIO: Christian Daniel Welfare (Wohlfahrt) was born June 12, 1796 in Salem, North Carolina. He died August 30, 1841 in Salem. His parents were Jacob Wohlfahrt and Anna Elizabeth Schneider Wohlfahrt. Daniel married Catharina Hege in 1828, together they had three children.

“Welfare was briefly apprenticed to a joiner. He later became a teacher in the Boys School and during his lifetime served the community in many ways: sick-nurse of the Single Brother, tavern keeper, member of the Aufsher Collegium, member of the Salem Light Infantry Company, delegate from the Salem Congregation to the Synod in Herrnhut in 1836.” (Bivins & Welshimer, p.96) Daniel Welfare was also the first portrait and landscape artist in Salem. He studied painting in Philadelphia under Thomas Sully. In 1825, he exhibited at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts.

Credit Line

Wachovia Historical Society