F. Benedict Herzog

Felix Benedict Herzog (December 27, 1859 - April 21, 1912) was an American electrical engineer, patent attorney, artist and photographer who discovered "America's First Supermodel" Audrey Munson.

[1] His Tale of Isolde established precedent in the US as the first pictorial photograph admitted by an art society on full equality with paintings.

He was an exhibitor with Photo-Secession in London, Vienna, Berlin, The Hague, Brussels; exhibited independently in London, World's Fair (Portland), Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) and Architectural League of New York, where his Tale of Isolde established precedent in the US as the first pictorial photograph admitted by an art society on full equality with paintings.

[2] Sadakichi Hartmann, the early photography critic, called Herzog "an independent pictorialist, with plenty of leisure and working solely for his pleasure.

Munson suggested that Herzog proposed to her so that he could protect her and that she was on the point of accepting when he died unexpectedly after intestinal surgery at Roosevelt Hospital in New York City on April 21, 1912.