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1751 Stockholm, Sweden - 1811 New Castle County, Delaware. Known for: Portrait, miniature, historical, and figure painting.
Born in Sweden and trained in Paris, Adolph Wertmuller became a painter of portraits and mythological subjects. He painted in the Neo-Classic tradition with mirror-like finishes on his paintings,... Read full biography
Born in Sweden and trained in Paris, Adolph Wertmuller became a painter of portraits and mythological subjects. He painted in the Neo-Classic tradition with mirror-like finishes on his paintings, giving no evidence of his own personality. He first gained prominence in Europe where he was elected an... Read full biography
Born in Sweden and trained in Paris, Adolph Wertmuller became a painter of portraits and mythological subjects. He painted in the Neo-Classic tradition with mirror-like finishes on his paintings, giving no evidence of his own personality. He first gained prominence in Europe where he was elected an academician at the Royal Academies of both France and Sweden. In 1794, he came to the United States briefly and then returned in 1800 after his family lost their money during the French Revolution.... Read full biography
Born in Sweden and trained in Paris, Adolph Wertmuller became a painter of portraits and mythological subjects. He painted in the Neo-Classic tradition with mirror-like finishes on his paintings, giving no evidence of his own personality. He first gained prominence in Europe where he was elected an academician at the Royal Academies of both France and Sweden. In 1794, he came to the United States briefly and then returned in 1800 after his family lost their money during the French Revolution. He had studied in Paris with Joseph- Marie Vien, teacher of the famous Neo-Classical painter Jacques-Louis David. He settled on a farm near Wilmington after marrying Elizabeth Henderson, a Philadelphian and granddaughter of painter Gustaf Hesselius.... Read full biography
Born in Sweden and trained in Paris, Adolph Wertmuller became a painter of portraits and mythological subjects. He painted in the Neo-Classic tradition with mirror-like finishes on his paintings, giving no evidence of his own personality. He first gained prominence in Europe where he was elected an academician at the Royal Academies of both France and Sweden. In 1794, he came to the United States briefly and then returned in 1800 after his family lost their money during the French Revolution. He had studied in Paris with Joseph- Marie Vien, teacher of the famous Neo-Classical painter Jacques-Louis David. He settled on a farm near Wilmington after marrying Elizabeth Henderson, a Philadelphian and granddaughter of painter Gustaf Hesselius. Source:. Matthew Baigell, Dictionary of American Art... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (27)
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Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesAmerican Paintings of the Eighteenth Century
1995
(Exhibition catalog)Miles, Ellen G419 pagesAmerican Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815
1994Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque628 pagesPicturing a Nation Art and Social Change in 19th Century America
1994Lubin, David M364 pages (color)Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990Gerdts, William H421 pages (color)The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989Fresella-Lee, Nancy222 pages (color)Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1988
(Exhibition catalog)Falk, Peter Hastings472 pagesFederal Philadelphia 1785-1825 The Athens of the Western World
1987
(Exhibition catalog)Garvan, Beatrice96 pages (color)Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pagesAmerican Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art
1983Johnston, Sona K187 pages (color)The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981Rugoff, Milton669 pages (color)Dictionary of American Art
1979Baigell, Mathew390 pagesArts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel736 pagesAmerican Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977Brown, Milton W631 pages (color)The First Pose 1876: Turning Point in American Art
1976Sellin, David72 pagesSmithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975Editor, Smithsonian0 pagesA Nineteenth Century Gallery of Distinguished Americans
1969Stewart, Robert G93 pagesArts of the Young Republic The Age of William Dunlap
1968
(Exhibition catalog)Dickson, Harold E234 pagesAmerican Paintings to 1900 Catalogue of Paintings, Vol 1
1966North Carolina Museum of Art118 pages (color)American Paintings V 1, Catalog, Metropolitan Museum
1965Gardner, Albert and S Field284 pagesAmerican Painting History and Interpretation
1950Barker, Virgil715 pagesAmerican Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures
1941New York Historical Society367 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pagesThe Life Portraits of Washington and Their Replicas
1931Morgan, John Hill; M Fielding432 pagesA History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834)
1918Dunlap, William418 pages