Frederick Roscher

Roscher was born in Nuremberg and trained as an artist throughout Europe. He attended the Royal Academy, Munich; the Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence; and the Sorbonne, Paris. He was active as a portrait painter from the 1910s until his death in 1968, first in Europe, and eventually migrating to the Americas. He had a home Pennsylvania, and also worked in Palm Beach County, Florida where he maintained a studio in the south wing of the Breakers Hotel for more than a decade.

Roscher painted royalty, socialites, and eminent religious, political, and judicial figures. His sitters included Pope Benedict XV, who knighted him Cavaliere di San Gregorio Magna; Pope Pius XI; Supreme Court Chief Justice Frederick Vinson; King Ludwig and Queen Therese of Bavaria; and Eleanor Roosevelt among others. He also painted a number of provocative nudes.