Henry Ritter, Nun trau' dich doch. 1838. Henry Ritter1816 Montreal - 1853 Düsseldorf. Oil on canvas. Ligatured monogrammed "HR" u.r. and dated. Framed in a gold and bronze coloured wood moulding with hollow fillet and foliate lace carvings as sight moulding. Painting layer with fine age craquelure. Minor lesions with loss of painting layer along the margins in the area of the frame fold. Few small retouchings on the picture surface. Verso on the stretcher circumferential paper tape remains of a former framing. Dimensions: 21 x 18 cm, frame 28 x 21 cm. Henry Ritter 1816 Montreal - 1853 Düsseldorf Henry Ritter was a German-Canadian painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf school of painting. Orphaned at a young age, he lived with his uncle in Hamburg. After a brief commercial apprenticeship, Ritter received his first painting lessons from Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath and Friedrich Carl Gröger. In 1833 he attended the Sunday school in Düsseldorf, which was led by the professor of the academy of arts Ernst Carl Thelott. Member of the artists' association "Malkasten". In 1848 he moved to Seligenthal in the Bergisches Land and due to a nervous disorder ("nervous fever") he was temporarily unable to work. About 1852 he moved back to Düsseldorf and worked as a painter and illustrator for magazines, e. g. for the Düsseldorfer Monatshefte. In December 1853 he suffered a relapse of illness that put an end to his life.