A portrait painter in New York, John Wesley Jarvis was born to parents in South Shield, England, and was a nephew of theologian John Wesley. At age five, he was brought to Philadelphia where the... Read full biography
A portrait painter in New York, John Wesley Jarvis was born to parents in South Shield, England, and was a nephew of theologian John Wesley. At age five, he was brought to Philadelphia where the family first settled. He was apprenticed to Edward Savage, portrait painter and engraver, and in 1801... Read full biography
A portrait painter in New York, John Wesley Jarvis was born to parents in South Shield, England, and was a nephew of theologian John Wesley. At age five, he was brought to Philadelphia where the family first settled. He was apprenticed to Edward Savage, portrait painter and engraver, and in 1801 Savage moved to New York City and brought Jarvis with him and for awhile they worked together. However, the men became estranged and Jarvis opened his own engraving business and then formed a... Read full biography
A portrait painter in New York, John Wesley Jarvis was born to parents in South Shield, England, and was a nephew of theologian John Wesley. At age five, he was brought to Philadelphia where the family first settled. He was apprenticed to Edward Savage, portrait painter and engraver, and in 1801 Savage moved to New York City and brought Jarvis with him and for awhile they worked together. However, the men became estranged and Jarvis opened his own engraving business and then formed a partnership with Joseph Wood. "Their business was so successful that, Jarvis later claimed they often took in more than $100 a day." Because there was little competition, Jarvis's reputation soared as a portraitist. He later said: "I was the best painter... Read full biography
A portrait painter in New York, John Wesley Jarvis was born to parents in South Shield, England, and was a nephew of theologian John Wesley. At age five, he was brought to Philadelphia where the family first settled. He was apprenticed to Edward Savage, portrait painter and engraver, and in 1801 Savage moved to New York City and brought Jarvis with him and for awhile they worked together. However, the men became estranged and Jarvis opened his own engraving business and then formed a partnership with Joseph Wood. "Their business was so successful that, Jarvis later claimed they often took in more than $100 a day." Because there was little competition, Jarvis's reputation soared as a portraitist. He later said: "I was the best painter because others were worse than bad---so bad was the best.". The Jarvis-Wood partnership ended in 1810, and that year was one of travel fo... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (114)
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Kentucky The Master Painters
2008
Pennington, Estill Curtis
0 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Masterworks of American Painting at the De Young (De Young Museum)
2005
Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Daniell Cornell
573 pages (color)
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)
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
American Paintings/Metropolitan Mus V 1, Artists Born by 1815
1994
Caldwell, John/Oswaldo Roque
628 pages
Catalogue of The Collection: Museum, St. Petersburg Florida
1994
Lesko, Diane, (Ed)
366 pages (color)
The Rockefeller Collection American Art (at San Francisco Museums Fine Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Simpson, Marc
315 pages (color)
American Highlights/Estados Unidos U S History in Notable Works of Art
1993
Pavese, Edith
160 pages (color)
Facing the Past 19th Century Portraits from Pennsylvania Academy
1992
Danly, Susan
104 pages (color)
A Nation's Pride Art in the White House
1992
Kloss, William (et al)
375 pages (color)
American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1992
National Gallery of Art
545 pages
A Southern Collection
1992
Pennington, Estill Curtis
246 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts (vol 1)
1991
Detroit Institute of the Arts
340 pages (color)
American Art A Catalogue/Los Angeles County
1991
Fort, Ilene/Michael Quick
510 pages (color)
Neo-Classicism in America: Inspiration and Innovation. 1810-1840 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Garrett, Wendell (essay); Stuart Feld (Intro)
136 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Faces and Figures in American Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Bloch, E Maurice
99 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Native Americans Five Centuries of Changing Images
1989
Trenton, Patricia/P T Houlihan
304 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918
1987
Mahe, John A. II; Rosanne McCaffrey (Editors)
464 pages
The Portrait in Britain and America with Biographical Dictionary of Portraitists 1680-1914
1987
Simon, Robin
255 pages (color)
America: Art and the West (Australian exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Adams, Celeste Marie
130 pages (color)
Two Hundred Years of American Art
1986
Munson Williams-Proctor Inst
101 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)
National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
1985
Smithsonian Institution
461 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute
1984
Hassrick, Peter H
127 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
American Portrait Prints Tenth Annual American Print Conference
1984
Reaves, Wendy Wick
285 pages
The Drawing of America Eyewitnesses to History
1983
Davidson, Marshall
256 pages (color)
American Painting 1750-1900 from the Baltimore Museum of Art
1983
Johnston, Sona K
187 pages (color)
Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983
Wright, R Lewis
200 pages
Brooklyn Before the Bridge: American Paintings from the Long Island Historical Society
1982
Bastedo, Russell (Introduction); John A. Kouwenhoven, (Essay)
137 pages (color)
Hudson Valley People Albany to Yonkers, 1700-1900 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Faison, S Lane/Sally Mills
63 pages
American Art from the Colonial and Federal Periods
1982
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
100 pages (color)
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)
American Portraiture in the Grand Manner 1720-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Quick, Michael; William H Gerdts
228 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
A Heritage of American Paintings From the National Gallery of Art
1981
Williams, William James
256 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art
1980
Wilmerding, John
180 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Art
1979
Baigell, Mathew
390 pages
Great Paintings of the Old American West Thomas Gilcrease Institute Collection
1979
Broder, Patricia Janis
155 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
The Treasures of Gilcrease (Tulsa OK)
1979
Myers, Fred
106 pages (color)
The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
1979
Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
227 pages (color)
American Art to 1900 Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
1977
Brown, Milton W
631 pages (color)
The Way West Art of Frontier America
1977
Hassrick, Peter H
240 pages (color)
Portrait Painting in America The Nineteenth Century
1977
Miles, Ellen G (editor)
176 pages (color)
Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay)
270 pages (color)
From Foreign Shores Three Centuries...Foreign Born American Masters (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Milwaukee Art Center
186 pages (color)
American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper
1976
Stebbins, Theodore E
464 pages (color)
The Heritage of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Howat, John K/Natalie Spassky
237 pages (color)
Seascape and the American Imagination (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Stein, Roger B
144 pages (color)
The Story of American Painting
1974
Davidson, Abraham A
168 pages (color)
American Self Portraits 1670-1973 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Van Devanter, Ann, et al
245 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
The American Portrait: From the Death of Stuart to Sargent
1973
Hennessey, William J
63 pages
Faces and Places Changing Images of 19th Century America (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
72 pages (color)
A History of American Painting
1971
Baigell, Mathew
288 pages (color)
Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayons
1970
Bolton, Theodore
111 pages
Nineteenth Century American Painting
1970
Flexner, James Thomas
256 pages
19th Century America Hundredth Anniversary/Metropolitan Museum (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Howat, John K (others)
220 pages (color)
The Art Makers of Nineteenth Century America
1970
Lynes, Russell
514 pages
Great American Paintings from the Boston and Metropolitan Museums (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Maytham, Thomas N
160 pages (color)
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
History of American Painting 1760-1835 The Light of Distant Skies
1969
Flexner, James Thomas
307 pages
The Arts in America The Nineteenth Century
1969
Garrett, Wendell (others)
412 pages
Portraits of Jews By Gilbert Stuart & Other Early American Artists
1969
London, Hannah
197 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
Arts of the Young Republic The Age of William Dunlap (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Dickson, Harold E
234 pages
This New Man A Discourse in Portraits (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Townsend, Benjamin (others)
217 pages (color)
American Paintings for Public and Private Collections
1967
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
52 pages (color)
American Art A Historical Survey
1966
Green, Samuel M
706 pages
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
American Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
1966
Los Angeles County Museum
143 pages (color)
American Paintings to 1900 Catalogue of Paintings, Vol 1
1966
North Carolina Museum of Art
118 pages (color)
Limners and Likenesses
1965
Burroughs, Alan
246 pages
American Paintings V 1, Catalog, Metropolitan Museum
1965
Gardner, Albert and S Field
284 pages
Paintings in the White House A Close-Up TV Program (tie-in)
1965
Jensen, Amy (others)
46 pages (color)
Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965
Richardson, Edgar P
456 pages (color)
Art in New York State New York World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Kuh, Katherine
126 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
Walters Art Gallery Catalogue of the American Works of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1956
King, Edward S/Marvin C Ross
63 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art Union
1953
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett
0 pages
Privately Owned Selection from Collections in Washington Area (Exhibition catalog)
1952
Corcoran Gallery of Art
64 pages
American Painting History and Interpretation
1950
Barker, Virgil
715 pages
American Processional 1492-1900 (Sesquicentenial Commission) (Exhibition catalog)
1950
U S National Capital S C
270 pages
John Wesley Jarvis American Painter 1780-1840
1949
Dickson, Harold E
476 pages
Two Hundred and Fifty Years (of) Painting in Maryland (Exhibition catalog)
1945
Baltimore Museum of Art
78 pages
American Portraits by American Painters, 1730-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1944
Curator, Knoedler Galleries, New York
61 pages
American Portraits by American Painters 1730-1944
1944
Knoedler Galleries
24 pages
National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860 (Exhibition catalog)
1943
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett
0 pages
American Portraits Catalogue of Portraits in Oil, Miniature, Sculptures
1941
New York Historical Society
367 pages
Life in America Exhibition Paintings/New York World's Fair (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Metropolitan Museum of Art
230 pages
Exhibition of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1935
De Young Memorial Museum
120 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A Critical Introduction to American Painting
1931
Barker, Virgil
52 pages
The History and Ideals of American Art
1931
Neuhaus, Eugen
444 pages
Shades of Our Ancestors American Profiles and Profilists
1928
Carrick, Alice Van Leer
205 pages
The History of American Painting (supplemental chapters by Royal Cortissoz)
1927
Isham, Samuel
608 pages
Notes on American Artists 1754-1820 Portraits & Sculpture in New York Hist Society
1922
Kelby, William
80 pages (color)
A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834)