A Transatlantic Life: The Story of Tobias Edward Rosenthal Tobias Edward Rosenthal, known to most as Toby (born March 15, 1848, in Strasbourg, Prussia – died December 23, 1917, in Munich), occupies a fascinating, somewhat paradoxical position in the annals of 19th-century painting. Though he spent the vast majority of his artistic career in Europe, and achieved considerable recognition there, Rosenthal’s early life was deeply rooted in the burgeoning American West—a duality that subtly informed his work, blending European academic technique with an emerging sense of American identity. His st…