WORTHINGTON FINE ART GALLERIES

George Dury was born at Wurzburg, Bavaria, in 1817; and died in Nashville, Tennessee in 1894. Dury studied in Munich and, as a young man, enjoyed the patronage of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. In 1849 he traveled to America. Newspaper advertisements of the early 1850s reveal that he had by then established a studio in Nashville for instruction in the Fine Arts.