John Vanderlyn

John Vanderlyn
Metropolitan Museum of Art Self portrait, John Vanderlyn, 1800
Born	(1775-10-18)October 18, 1775 Kingston, Province of New York, British America
Died	September 23, 1852(1852-09-23) (aged 76) Kingston, New York, United States
Nationality	American
Known for	Painting

John Vanderlyn (October 18, 1775 – September 23, 1852) was an American neoclassicist painter.

Biography

Vanderlyn was born at Kingston, New York, and was the grandson of colonial portrait painter Pieter Vanderlyn.^[1] He was employed by a print-seller in New York, and was first instructed in art by Archibald Robinson (1765–1835), a Scotsman who was afterwards one of the directors of the American Academy of the Fine Arts. He went to Philadelphia, where he spent time in the studio of Gilbert Stuart and copied some of Stuart's portraits, including one of Aaron Burr, who placed him under Gilbert Stuart as a pupil.^[2]

He was a protégé of

In 1825 Vanderlyn was one of the founders of the National Academy of Design, and taught at its school.

Vanderlyn was the first American to study in France[4] instead of in England, and to acquire accurate draughtsmanship. He was more academic than his fellows; but, though faithfully and capably executed, it was thought that his work was rather devoid of charm, according to the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.^[2] His Landing of Columbus has been called by Appleton's Cyclopedia "hardly more than respectable."^[3] He died in poverty at Kingston, New York, on September 23, 1852.^[2] He is buried in Wiltwyck Rural Cemetery in Kingston, NY.^[5]

Gallery

• 
  ^{White House collection}
  James Madison (1791)
• 
  ^{New York Historical Society}
  Portrait of Aaron Burr (1802)
• 
  ^{New York Historical Society}
  Portrait of Theodosia Burr Alston (1802)
• 
  ^{Wadsworth Athenaeum}
  The Death of Jane McCrea (1804–05)
• 
  ^{Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco}
  Marius amid the Ruins of Carthage (1807)
• 
  ^{Worcester Art Museum}
  Sampson Vryling Stoddard Wilder (c. 1808–1812)
• 
  ^{U.S. House of Representatives}
  Portrait of George Washington (1834)
• 
  ^{Birmingham Museum of Art}
  Study for Landing of Columbus (c. 1840)
• 
  Columbian Issue of 1893. Postage stamp based on Vanderlyn's Landing of Columbus.

Notes

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Vanderlyn, John". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 886.

Further reading

• Avery, Kevin J., & Fodera, Peter L. (1988). John Vanderlyn's panoramic view of the palace and gardens of Versailles. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

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• City of Kingston, New York webpage