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1716 Chur, Switzerland - 1774 Charleston, South Carolina. Known for: Portrait and some landscape painting, teaching.
Born in Chur, Switzerland, Jeremiah Theus became the most important artist of the colonial era in Charleston, South Carolina, and most of his paintings remain there and in Savannah, Georgia. He had... Read full biography
Born in Chur, Switzerland, Jeremiah Theus became the most important artist of the colonial era in Charleston, South Carolina, and most of his paintings remain there and in Savannah, Georgia. He had little competition and was a favorite of the more prominent plantation and merchant families. His... Read full biography
Born in Chur, Switzerland, Jeremiah Theus became the most important artist of the colonial era in Charleston, South Carolina, and most of his paintings remain there and in Savannah, Georgia. He had little competition and was a favorite of the more prominent plantation and merchant families. His early training is unknown. He and his parents emigrated to Orangeburg Township, South Carolina about 1735. In 1740, he advertised in Charleston as a limner of portraits, "landskips," and crests for... Read full biography
Born in Chur, Switzerland, Jeremiah Theus became the most important artist of the colonial era in Charleston, South Carolina, and most of his paintings remain there and in Savannah, Georgia. He had little competition and was a favorite of the more prominent plantation and merchant families. His early training is unknown. He and his parents emigrated to Orangeburg Township, South Carolina about 1735. In 1740, he advertised in Charleston as a limner of portraits, "landskips," and crests for coaches. He was immediately successful, and became the regions' most established artist, painting about 150 portraits. For 30 years, he traveled a radius of about 100 miles from his Charleston studio to paint subjects in the Carolinas and Georgia. His... Read full biography
Born in Chur, Switzerland, Jeremiah Theus became the most important artist of the colonial era in Charleston, South Carolina, and most of his paintings remain there and in Savannah, Georgia. He had little competition and was a favorite of the more prominent plantation and merchant families. His early training is unknown. He and his parents emigrated to Orangeburg Township, South Carolina about 1735. In 1740, he advertised in Charleston as a limner of portraits, "landskips," and crests for coaches. He was immediately successful, and became the regions' most established artist, painting about 150 portraits. For 30 years, he traveled a radius of about 100 miles from his Charleston studio to paint subjects in the Carolinas and Georgia. His figures are adequate but to some critics appear quite stiff with features that tend to be sim... Read full biography
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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 Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin877 pages (color)American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century
1995
(Exhibition catalog)Miles, Ellen G419 pagesGreenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection
1995Severens, Martha R289 pages (color)American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815
1994Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque628 pagesAmerican Art History and Culture
1994Craven, Wayne687 pages (color)American Paintings at the High Museum of Art
1994High Museum of Art216 pages (color)American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
1992
(Exhibition catalog)National Gallery of Art545 pagesAmerican Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts (vol 1)
1991Detroit Institute of the Arts340 pages (color)American Originals Selections from Reynolda House Museum
1990Eldredge, Charles C135 pages (color)Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990Gerdts, William H396 pages (color)American Colonial Portraits (Smithsonian Institution for National Portrait Gallery)
1987
(Exhibition catalog)Saunders, Richard H. and Ellen Miles0 pagesThe Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914
1987Simon, Robin255 pages (color)Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)1,081 pages300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986Zellman, Michael David1,102 pages (color)American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984Baigell, Mathew420 pagesNational Gallery of Art, Washington New and Revised Edition
1984
(Exhibition catalog)Walker, John606 pages (color)The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and the Products of Craftsmen
1983Poesch, Jessie384 pages (color)Painting in the South: 1564-1980
1983
(Exhibition catalog)Virginia Museum, Richmond362 pages (color)American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
1982
(Exhibition catalog)Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff213 pagesAmerican Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981Newark Museum431 pages (color)The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981Rugoff, Milton669 pages (color)A Heritage of American Paintings From the National Gallery of Art
1981Williams, William James256 pages (color)Dictionary of American Art
1979Baigell, Mathew390 pagesFolk Painters of America
1979Bishop, Robert255 pages (color)American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works
1979Brooklyn Museum133 pages (color)Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel736 pagesAmerican Art from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum
1979Teitz, Richard Stuart118 pagesKaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
1978
(Exhibition catalog)William Rockhill Nelson G of A72 pages (color)American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977Brown, Milton W631 pages (color)Robert P Coggins Collection of American Art/Selections from
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Chambers, Bruce W93 pages (color)American Art: 1750-1800 Towards Independence
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Montgomery, Charles/Pat Kane320 pages (color)Catalogue of American Paintings in British Public Collections
1974Gidley, Mick58 pagesA History of American Art
1973Mendelowitz, Daniel M662 pagesThe Genius of American Painting
1973Wilmerding, John352 pages (color)Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970Myers, Bernard S (editor)511 pages (color)Portraits of Jews By Gilbert Stuart & Other Early American Artists
1969London, Hannah197 pagesAmerican Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)600 pages (color)American Paintings for Public and Private Collections
1967Hirschl & Adler Galleries52 pages (color)Reality, Romanticism, Realism Two Centuries of American Painting
1967Kennedy Galleries60 pagesThe Arts in America Colonial Period
1966Wright, Louis (others)368 pagesLimners and Likenesses
1965Burroughs, Alan246 pagesAmerican Paintings V 1, Catalog, Metropolitan Museum
1965Gardner, Albert and S Field284 pagesPainting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965Richardson, Edgar P456 pages (color)101 Masterpieces of Primitive American Painting
1961
(Exhibition catalog)Rorimer, James/JohnWalker159 pages (color)The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957Groce, George; David Wallace759 pagesJeremiah Theus Colonial Artist of Charles Town
1953Middleton, Margaret Simons217 pagesAmerican Painting History and Interpretation
1950Barker, Virgil715 pagesFrom Colony to Nation (Exhibition US works to War of 1812)
1949
(Exhibition catalog)Art Institute of Chicago140 pagesHistory of American Painting: First Flowers of Our Wilderness: The Colonial Period (Volume One)
1947Flexner, James Thomas368 pages (color)Survey of American Painting
1940
(Exhibition catalog)Carnegie Institute320 pagesThe Main Currents in the Development of American Art
1936
(Exhibition catalog)Virginia Museum of Fine Arts80 pagesExhibition of American Painting
1935
(Exhibition catalog)De Young Memorial Museum120 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pagesA Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931Barker, Virgil52 pagesThe History and Ideals of American Art
1931Neuhaus, Eugen444 pagesOne Hundred Early American Paintings
1918Ehrich Galleries176 pages