Arthur Nahl (1 September 1833 – 1 April 1889) was a German-born artist, daguerreotyper, engraver, portraitist, and landscape painter.
His early art studies were with Charles and the family friend Frederick August Wenderoth.
The family bought a mine on Deer Creek near Rough and Ready, California, which fared poorly.
After Wenderoth married one of the Nahl sisters and moved to Philadelphia, Charles began a partnership with Arthur.
His exhibitions included: Nahl's art works are held at the Oakland Museum and the California Historical Society.
At their home in San Francisco's Bush Street, their backyard gymnasium served as the early version of the Olympic Club and was its headquarters during the period of 1855 to 1860.
Another son, Virgil Theodore Nahl (1876–1930), went to work as a staff artist for the San Francisco Examiner.
[6] A third son, Arthur Charles Nahl, was a mining engineer; his daughters Marion and Phyllis a ballet dancer, Margery, was an impressionist painter.