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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (70)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Classic Ground: Mid-Nineteenth Century American Painting and the Italian Encounter (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Manoguerra & Simon (essays)
124 pages (color)
Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal
2003
Rasmussen, William M.S.; Robert S. Tilton
252 pages (color)
Early Art and Artists in West Virginia
2000
Cuthbert, John A.
301 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
One Hundred Years of American Medallic Art, 1845-1945: The John E. Marqusee Collection: Herbert F. Johnson Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1995
Luftschein, Susan
98 pages
Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection
1995
Severens, Martha R
289 pages (color)
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815
1994
Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque
628 pages
Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930 (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Ayers, William S
256 pages (color)
Art & Empire The Politics of Ethnicity in th US Capitol 1815-1860
1992
Fryd, Vivien Green
273 pages
Discovered Lands Invented Pasts Transforming Visions of the American West
1992
Prown, Jules; Nancy Anderson, William Cronon
217 pages (color)
Painting Texas History to 1900
1992
Ratcliffe, Sam DeShong
140 pages (color)
The Lure of Italy American Artists and the Italian Experience (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Stebbins, Theodore E
470 pages (color)
Carl Wimar Chronicler of the Missouri River Frontier (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Stewart, Rick (et al)
251 pages (color)
The West as America Reinterpreting Images of Frontier (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Truettner, William H
386 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Native Americans Five Centuries of Changing Images
1989
Trenton, Patricia/P T Houlihan
304 pages (color)
Picturing America /1497-1899 2 vols /Prints, Maps and Drawings
1988
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
1,160 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Grand Illusions History Painting in America
1988
Gerdts, William & Thistlewaite
174 pages
Plain Painters Making Sense of American Folk Art
1988
Vlach, John Michael
206 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
Pre-Twentieth Century American and European Painting and Sculpure
1984
Harding, Jonathan P
185 pages
The Capital Image Painters in Washington 1800-1915 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Cosentino, Andrew; Henry H. Glassie
280 pages (color)
The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and the Products of Craftsmen
1983
Poesch, Jessie
384 pages (color)
Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983
Wright, R Lewis
200 pages
American Landscape/Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society (3 vols)
1982
Koke, Richard J
1,243 pages
Dictionary of 19th Century American Artists in Italy (1760-1940)
1982
Soria, Regina
332 pages
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981
Newark Museum
431 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Fine Arts in America
1979
Taylor, Joshua C
264 pages
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
1978
Fink, Lois Marie
62 pages (color)
Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1978
William Rockhill Nelson G of A
72 pages (color)
American Art at the Century
1977
Mayor, A. Hyatt; Mark Davis
0 pages
In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976 (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all
322 pages (color)
Art in the United States Capitol
1976
Editor for Architect of the Capitol
0 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor
272 pages
The Heritage of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Howat, John K/Natalie Spassky
237 pages (color)
To See Is To Think: Looking at American Art
1975
Taylor, Joshua C
117 pages (color)
The Painters' America Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Hills, Patricia
160 pages (color)
The Indian and the Black Man The Image in American Art
1974
Parry, Ellwood
189 pages
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
Biographical Sketches of American Artists
1972
Earle, Helen L
370 pages
The Arcadian Landscape 19th Century American Painters in Italy (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Eldredge, Charles (Intro); Barbara Novak
104 pages
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
A Nineteenth Century Gallery of Distinguished Americans
1969
Stewart, Robert G
93 pages
The American Artist Abroad (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Kennedy Galleries
75 pages (color)
The Artist and the Sportsman (The National Art Museum of Sport) (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Scott, Martha B.
95 pages (color)
Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965
Richardson, Edgar P
456 pages (color)
John Gadsby Chapman Painter and Illustrator (Exhibition catalog)
1962
National Gallery of Art
31 pages
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
American Romantic Painting
1944
Richardson, Edgar P
286 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
Art and Artists of the Capitol of the United States of America
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
1919
McIllwaine, H. R. (State Librarian)
27 pages
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834)
1918
Dunlap, William
418 pages
The American Drawing Book: A Manual for the Amateur and Basis of Study for the Professional Artist