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John Hesselius

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John Hesselius (1728 - 1778) was active/lived in Maryland.  John Hesselius is known for Portrait often full figure.

Born to a Swedish family, John Hesselius became one of the leading portrait painters in the Mid-Atlantic colonies. He is noted as one of the earliest teacher of Charles Willson Peale, who later became one of America's best-known colonial artists and whom Hesselius met at Annapolis in the early 1760s.

He first studied with his father, Gustavus Hesselius, a painter of portraits and religious subjects, but it is not thought that his father had much influence on his style.

The family lived in Philadelphia where he saw the work of portraitist Robert Feke, and this exposure became an ongoing influence as did the painting of John Wollaston, which he saw later in his career when Wollaston was working in the Colonies.

"Charles Calvert", owned by the Baltimore Museum of Art, is his most famous portrait and depicts a five-year old child, attended by black slaves, and posed as a general of military troops. Nearly 100 portraits survive, and it is thought that he also painted   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1742 characters.]  Artist bio

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for John Hesselius
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review First Fitzhughs of Virginia April 1997 Rasmussen, William Yes
77 Book References for John 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
1996 Addison Gallery Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue
(Exhibition catalog)		 512 Yes
1996 O'Leary, Elizabeth L At Beck and Call: Domestic Servants In 19th Century Painting 305 Yes
1994 Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815 628 No
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
1991 Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County 510 Yes
1991 Miller, Lillian B/David C Ward Charles Willson Peale New Perspectives/250th Anniversary Celebration 317 No
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
1988 Berry-Hill Galleries American Paintings V 1988 180 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
1986 Richardson, Edgar P American Paintings and Related Pictures in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum 157 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Johns, Elizabeth; William Elder III, Josephine Withers, et all Maryland: 350 Years of Art & Architecture (University of Maryland Architecture Department Art Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 248 No
1983 Johnston, Sona K American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art 187 Yes
1983 Poesch, Jessie The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and the Products of Craftsmen 384 Yes
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
1982 Hirschl & Adler Galleries American Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods 100 Yes
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Quick, Michael; William H Gerdts American Portraiture in the Grand Manner 1720-1920
(Exhibition catalog)		 228 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Galleries, Hirschl and Adler American Art from the Gallery's Collection October 4 - 25, 1980 112 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
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 Mint Museum American Paintings The Landon Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 Yes
1979 Taylor, Joshua C The Fine Arts in America 264 No
1978 William Rockhill Nelson G of A Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1977 Brown, Milton W American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture 631 Yes
1976 Marcus, George H. (Editor) Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 166 Yes
1975 Howat, John K/Natalie Spassky The Heritage of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 237 Yes
1975 Steadman, William E First Flowers of Our Wilderness (University of Arizona Museum of Art)
(Exhibition catalog)		 143 Yes
1975 Taylor, Joshua C To See Is To Think: Looking at American Art 117 Yes
1974 Parry, Ellwood The Indian and the Black Man The Image in American Art 189 No
1973 Mendelowitz, Daniel M A History of American Art 662 No
1972 Price, Vincent The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art 320 Yes
1971 Quimby, Ian M G (editor) American Painting to 1776 A Reappraisal 381 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1969 Canaday, John The Lives of the Painters in Four Volumes 1520 Yes
1967 Flexner, James Thomas America's Old Masters 365 No
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1966 Los Angeles County Museum American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art 143 Yes
1966 North Carolina Museum of Art American Paintings to 1900 Catalogue of Paintings, Vol 1 118 Yes
1966 Wright, Louis (others) The Arts in America Colonial Period 368 No
1965 Gardner, Albert and S Field American Paintings V 1, Catalog, Metropolitan Museum 284 No
1963 Minneapolis Institute of Art Four Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 68 No
1961 Rorimer, James/JohnWalker 101 Masterpieces of Primitive American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 159 Yes
1959 Belknap, Waldron Phoenix Jr American Colonial Painting Materials for a History 377 No
1957 Eliot, Alexander Three Hundred Years of American Painting 318 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1955 Breeskin, Adelyn D 200 Objects in the Baltimore Museum of Art 93 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1953 Brooklyn, Museum American Painting in the Brooklyn Museum Collection 48 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 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
1944 Curator, Knoedler Galleries, New York American Portraits by American Painters, 1730-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 61 No
1944 Knoedler Galleries American Portraits by American Painters 1730-1944 24 No
1943 Walker, John; James MacGill Great American Paintings from Smibert to Bellows, 1729-1924 (National Gallery of Art) 112 Yes
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
1936 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Main Currents in the Development of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1935 De Young Memorial Museum Exhibition of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1933 Harshe, Robert (Introduction) A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 215 No
1931 Barker, Virgil A Critical Introduction to American Painting 52 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 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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