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John Gadsby Chapman

John Gadsby Chapman (1808 - 1889) was active/lived in New York / Italy.  John Chapman is known for Sea-landscape, portrait, genre and history painting.

Born in Alexandria, Virginia, John Gadsby Chapman was a highly productive painter, illustrator, and engraver*, living primarily as an expatriate* in Italy.  He was a student of Charles Bird King in Washington DC, worked briefly as a professional artist in Winchester, Virginia, and was enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts* in Philadelphia. However, as a young man, he left for Italy, studying in Rome and Florence, and returning to America in 1831. 

In the U.S., he became a reputable portrait and history painter, living between New York and Washington D.C.  One of his best known works is a large, highly colorful mural, The Baptism of Pocahontas, which is in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, and which brought him great renown for its placement in such a distinguished location.  The work is described as "though lacking in monumentality, it is the most luminous* and colorful of the Rotunda pictures."

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