John Eissler (1873-1962) was born in Philadelphia in
the United States. After having finished his artistic education at the School
of Industrial Art in Philadelphia, at the age of 15, he started engraving with
Charles H Elliott Co of that same city. In 1900, his decade-long stint at the Philadelphia
branch of the ABNC started, and in September 1911 Eissler came to work for the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing. There, his philatelic career began.
But his
miniature portrait work was even more lauded. The many stamp portraits he
mengraved show how gifted his was. Wonderful examples of those are the
portraits of Teddy Roosevelt (1922), Woodrow Wilson (1925), and the three naval
heroes on the 4c value from the 1936 ‘Army and Navy Heroes’ issue.
You will find John Eissler's database HERE.