Joseph Christian Leyendecker was a popular American illustrator. Of Dutch ancestry, born in Germany, he emigrated to the United States at the age of eight in 1882 from Montabaur, Germany, with his parents, Peter Leyendecker and Elizabeth née Oreseifen, his sister, Augusta, and two brothers, Francis Xavier "Frank" Leyendecker, and Adolph Leyendecker. Leyendecker obtained a job at an engraving company, and attended the Chicago Art Institute under John H. Vanderpoel, … Wikipedia
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