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Last Name Prestele

Given Name William Henry

alt. Names W. H. P. ; Wilhelm Heinrich Prestele ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1838 in Hessen-Darmstadt, now Germany

Year died 1895

Place of death Arlington, Virginia

Father's occupation flower and fruit painter & lithographer ->Franz Joseph Martin Prestele

Relatives Karoline Russ (mother) ;

Education

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for Thomas Volney Munson (1843-1913) ;

Patronage Pomological Division of United States Department of Agriculture, Washington DC

Collaborators publisher L. B. Littlefield ; father and brother Gottlieb Prestele ;

Techniques botanical and pomological lithography, watercolour, painting, and drawing ;

Sample(s) www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=all&includes[]=tags&search_query=prestele ; http://stores.ebay.de/PrintsNPaper/_i.html?_fsub=1001164018 ;

Archival sources USDA Pomological watercolor collection; National Agricultural Library ;

Published sources Charles Van Ravenswaay: The Botanical Art of Joseph Prestele and His Sons, (Washington 1984) ;

other Further Place of Activity: Germany. He grew up in Amana Colonies in Iowa, opened a Lithography company in Iowa City 1875.

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