Background
Rehn, Frank Knox Morton was born on April 12, 1848 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Professor Isaac and Abigail Francis (Zelly) Rehn.
Rehn, Frank Knox Morton was born on April 12, 1848 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Professor Isaac and Abigail Francis (Zelly) Rehn.
Studied at Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts. Painter of marines, landscapes and portraits.
Foreign several years, he then painted portraits in Philadelphia. Using money earned in Philadelphia, he moved to the coast of New Jersey, where he began doing marine paintings. They moved to the Hotel Chelsea in New York City where, with other artists, he kept a studio on the top floor.
He died in 1914 in Magnolia, Massachusetts, where he had built a summer home in 1896.
Married Margaret Selby, daughter