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John Gadsby Chapman

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

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 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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   Publications  Book References:  71
Magazine References:  4

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4 Miscellaneous Magazine References for John Gadsby Chapman
Magazine Article Date Author Color
The Magazine Antiques The Baptism of Pocahontas January 2009 Bedford, Faith Andrews Yes
American Art Review Mid-19th Century Painting & the Ita December 2004 Manoguerra, Paul A Yes
American Art Review Pocahontas December 1994 Rasmussen, William Yes
The Magazine Antiques Greenville (SC) County Museum /Art November 1994 Severens, Martha Yes
71 Book References for John Gadsby Chapman
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
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2004 Manoguerra & Simon (essays) Classic Ground: Mid-Nineteenth Century American Painting and the Italian Encounter
(Exhibition catalog)		 124 Yes
2003 Rasmussen, William M.S.; Robert S. Tilton Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal 252 Yes
2000 Cuthbert, John A. Early Art and Artists in West Virginia 301 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1995 Luftschein, Susan One Hundred Years of American Medallic Art, 1845-1945: The John E. Marqusee Collection: Herbert F. Johnson Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 98 No
1995 Severens, Martha R Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection 289 Yes
1994 Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815 628 No
1993 Ayers, William S Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930
(Exhibition catalog)		 256 Yes
1992 Fryd, Vivien Green Art & Empire The Politics of Ethnicity in th US Capitol 1815-1860 273 No
1992 Prown, Jules; Nancy Anderson, William Cronon Discovered Lands Invented Pasts Transforming Visions of the American West 217 Yes
1992 Ratcliffe, Sam DeShong Painting Texas History to 1900 140 Yes
1992 Stebbins, Theodore E The Lure of Italy American Artists and the Italian Experience
(Exhibition catalog)		 470 Yes
1991 Stewart, Rick (et al) Carl Wimar Chronicler of the Missouri River Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)		 251 Yes
1991 Truettner, William H The West as America Reinterpreting Images of Frontier
(Exhibition catalog)		 386 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1989 Trenton, Patricia/P T Houlihan Native Americans Five Centuries of Changing Images 304 Yes
1988 Deak, Gloria-Gilda Picturing America /1497-1899 2 vols /Prints, Maps and Drawings 1160 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Gerdts, William & Thistlewaite Grand Illusions History Painting in America 174 No
1988 Vlach, John Michael Plain Painters Making Sense of American Folk Art 206 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1984 Harding, Jonathan P Pre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpure 185 No
1983 Cosentino, Andrew; Henry H. Glassie The Capital Image Painters in Washington 1800-1915
(Exhibition catalog)		 280 Yes
1983 Poesch, Jessie The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and the Products of Craftsmen 384 Yes
1983 Wright, R Lewis Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist 200 No
1982 Koke, Richard J American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols) 1243 No
1982 Soria, Regina Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940) 332 No
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
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
1978 Fink, Lois Marie Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art 62 Yes
1978 William Rockhill Nelson G of A Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1977 Mayor, A. Hyatt; Mark Davis American Art at the Century 0 No
1976 Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
(Exhibition catalog)		 322 Yes
1976 Editor for Architect of the Capitol Art in the United States Capitol 0 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1975 Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 No
1975 Howat, John K/Natalie Spassky The Heritage of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 237 Yes
1975 Taylor, Joshua C To See Is To Think: Looking at American Art 117 Yes
1974 Hills, Patricia The Painters' America Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1974 Parry, Ellwood The Indian and the Black Man The Image in American Art 189 No
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1972 Eldredge, Charles (Intro); Barbara Novak The Arcadian Landscape 19th Century American Painters in Italy
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 No
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1969 Stewart, Robert G A Nineteenth Century Gallery of Distinguished Americans 93 No
1968 Kennedy Galleries The American Artist Abroad
(Exhibition catalog)		 75 Yes
1968 Scott, Martha B. The Artist and the Sportsman (The National Art Museum of Sport)
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 Yes
1965 Richardson, Edgar P Painting in America From 1502 to the Present 456 Yes
1962 National Gallery of Art John Gadsby Chapman Painter and Illustrator
(Exhibition catalog)		 31 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1944 Richardson, Edgar P American Romantic Painting 286 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1927 Fairman, Charles E Art and Artists of the Capitol of the United States of America 0 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1919 McIllwaine, H. R. (State Librarian) Bulletin of the Virginia State Library (Vol XII, Nos 3, 4) Collection of Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, etc. by John Gadsby Chapman & Conrad Wise Chapman in the Virginia State Library 27 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
1847 Chapman, John Gadsby (Author and Ilustrator The American Drawing Book: A Manual for the Amateur and Basis of Study for the Professional Artist 182 No
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