Rondel, Frederick New York (1826-1892) MAN WITH A BIRDCAGE, 1883 oil on canvas, framed signed & dated: lower right, F. Rondel, 1883 H20" W24" *Artist biography: Born in Paris in 1826, Frederick Rondel came to America where he became the only art teacher the great American artist Winslow Homer ever had. Rondel's New England landscapes and paintings of New York City were ultimately influenced by the romanticism of his teachers in Paris, Theodore Gudin and Auguste Jugelet (Jugelet himself being a pupil of Gudin). It is known that from 1855 to 1857 Rondel was in Boston, having arrived from Europe, and one year later was in South Malden, Massachusetts, while concurrently keeping a New York City studio. He left New York for Europe from 1862 to 1868, but returned to be a faculty member at the National Academy of Design, where he had become an Associate. He exhibited at the National Academy, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and the Boston Athenaeum. Frederick Rondel, teacher of Winslow Homer and painter of marines, animals and landscapes, died in 1892.