The biggest sensation at Scheublein (26% buyer’s premium) in Munich on June 30 was caused by an oil painting of American Indians from the mid-19th century, left. It was an oil study for a famous painting by Carl Ferdinand Wimar (1828-62), who also went by the name of Charles Wimar.
He was born in Germany, but when he was 15 his family emigrated to St Louis in Missouri, an area which attracted many Germans at that time. In 1846 he began to study painting under Louis Pomerade (1807-92), a French artist who had also settled in the city.