Painter. He received recognition as a Dutch portraitist in the 19th Century. At the age of three-years-old, he and his parents emigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from the Netherlands. In 1838, as a young man, he traveled to Dusseldorf, Germany, where he attended the Royal Prussian Academy from 1839 to 1841. He was the first American to be accepted to this academy. His most memorable teachers were portraitist, Karl Ferdinand Sohn, and history and landscape painter, Carl Friedrich Lessing. He had planned to return to the United States in 1844, but decided to visit the Netherlands. He became involved rapidly in the art community. The next year, he became a member of the Royal Academy in Amsterdam, and by 1846 he was a freelance portraitist. He became a member of Arti et Ameicitae, a group for artists. In 1846 he married Maria Elisabeth Therese Herrmann and they had five daughters and a son. Among his children there were several who would become artists: Therese Schwartze was a portraitist; Georgine Schwartze was a sculptor; George Washington Schwartze was a painter. He had two granddaughters that became painters, Lizzy and Sorella Ansingh. All spent time in his studio at an early age and he encouraged each of them to paint. Besides his family, he taught art to Maria Vos. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has a collection of his paintings: His self-portrait; portrait of his daughter, Ida, with his father-in-law Johann Joseph Herman; a portrait of his daughter Therese Schwartze; and various prints are on display. Typically, his oil portraits have a good likeness of the subject, but are in dark-colored clothes and background. He was originally buried in the Old Oosterbegraafplaats, but after the cemetery closed, his remains were allegedly moved to the New Oosterbergraafplaats to be near their daughter's grave according to sources, yet there in no marker found in the cemetery nor documentation in the records.