Daniel A. Wehrschmidt

Daniel Albert Wehrschmidt (1861 – 22 February 1932), also known as D. A. Veresmith, was a German-American artist from Ohio who made a career for himself in England as a portrait painter, lithographer, and engraver.

Herkomer was impressed by Wehrschmidt and invited him to join him in a new venture in England, which was a school to train illustrators and painters in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

Wehrschmidt took him up on the invitation and served as a teacher and eventually co-owner of the school where he remained until 1896, a year in which Von Herkomer was knighted by Queen Victoria.

He became a naturalized British Subject in 1890, and due to the anti-German feeling common in Britain around the time of the first World War, Anglicised his name to Veresmith.

He lived briefly in Co. Cork in Ireland around 1921, before moving to North Curry Somerset, where he had a studio and painted till he died on 22 February 1932.