Damaconturbantenegro albert lynch 1851-1912

Albert Lynch (1860–1950) was a Parisian painter of German-Peruvian ancestry. Alberto Fernando Lynch was born on 26 September 1860 in Gleisweiler in the Rhineland of Germany and was baptized there on 21 March 1861. His father, Diego Lynch, had been born in Chachapoyas, Peru in November 1812, the son of a family of merchants, and had moved to Paris in the late 1840s. His mother was Adele Bertha Emma Koeffler (born 1834 or 1835), the daughter of Thomas Koeffler, a German landscape painter who was working in Paris in the 1850s. The two had married in New York on 9 May 1852.