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Gustavus Hesselius

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Gustavus Hesselius (1682 - 1755) was active/lived in Pennsylvania.  Gustavus Hesselius is known for Portrait, religious, Indian figure.

A portrait painter who came from Sweden, Gustavus Hesselius was highly prominent in the Middle Colonies and in Philadelphia, where he was one of the first professional portraitists. He was also unique in that unlike most portrait painters of that era, he also did other subjects including religious, narrative and classical themes as well as coach and other decorative work.

His painting technique is not considered particularly strong by some art historians, but is valued as historically important because it included Indian Chiefs Tishcohan and Lapowinsa, paintings now in the Pennsylvania Historical Society. These portraits are some of the earliest likenesses of American Indians and were completed for John Penn to commemorate the signing of a treaty. Hesselius was also the first painter to introduce in America the late baroque style, popular in Europe, but it was not especially well received in the Colonies. An example is "Bacchanalian Revel", an orgiastic scene of the feast to Ba   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2190 characters.]  Artist bio

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60 Book References for Gustavus Hesselius
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Hughes, Robert American Visions The Epic History of Art in America 635 Yes
1997 Schwarz, Robert Devlin 150 Years of Philadelphia Still Life Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 130 Yes
1996 Addison Gallery Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 512 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1991 Detroit Institute of the Arts American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts (vol 1) 340 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Goddard, Donald; Robert Rosenblum (Intro) American Painting 319 Yes
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1987 Simon, Robin The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914 255 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1983 Virginia Museum, Richmond Painting in the South: 1564-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 362 Yes
1983 Wright, R Lewis Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist 200 No
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Taylor, Joshua C The Fine Arts in America 264 No
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1976 Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay) Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 Yes
1976 Marcus, George H. (Editor) Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 166 Yes
1976 Milwaukee Art Center From Foreign Shores Three Centuries...Foreign Born American Masters
(Exhibition catalog)		 186 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1974 Davidson, Abraham A The Story of American Painting 168 Yes
1974 Gerdts, William H The Great American Nude A History in Art 224 Yes
1974 Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure American Narrative Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 Yes
1974 Parry, Ellwood The Indian and the Black Man The Image in American Art 189 No
1974 Van Devanter, Ann, et al American Self Portraits 1670-1973
(Exhibition catalog)		 245 Yes
1973 Bennett, Ian A History of American Painting 240 Yes
1973 Mendelowitz, Daniel M A History of American Art 662 No
1973 Wilmerding, John The Genius of American Painting 352 Yes
1972 Dickson, Harold E Masterworks by Pennsylvania Painters in Pennsylvania Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1972 Horan, James D The McKenney-Hall Portrait Gallery of American Indians 373 Yes
1972 Price, Vincent The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art 320 Yes
1971 Baigell, Mathew A History of American Painting 288 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Goodrich, Lloyd/Mary Black What Is American in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1971 Quimby, Ian M G (editor) American Painting to 1776 A Reappraisal 381 No
1969 Canaday, John The Lives of the Painters in Four Volumes 1520 Yes
1966 Green, Samuel M American Art A Historical Survey 706 No
1966 Wright, Louis (others) The Arts in America Colonial Period 368 No
1965 Burroughs, Alan Limners and Likenesses 246 No
1965 Richardson, Edgar P Painting in America From 1502 to the Present 456 Yes
1963 Richardson, Edgar P A Short History of Painting in America 347 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1950 U S National Capital S C American Processional 1492-1900 (Sesquicentenial Commission)
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 No
1949 Art Institute of Chicago From Colony to Nation (Exhibition US works to War of 1812)
(Exhibition catalog)		 140 No
1947 Flexner, James Thomas History of American Painting: First Flowers of Our Wilderness: The Colonial Period (Volume One) 368 Yes
1945 Baltimore Museum of Art Two Hundred and Fifty Years (of) Painting in Maryland
(Exhibition catalog)		 78 No
1940 Carnegie Institute Survey of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 No
1939 Metropolitan Museum of Art Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair
(Exhibition catalog)		 230 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1929 La Follette, Suzanne Art in America 361 No
1918 Dunlap, William A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834) 418 No
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