The following, submitted September 2003, is from Mike Warren:. John S. Blunt was (1798-1835) was born in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire area. His brief career consisted of portraits, landscapes, and... Read full biography
The following, submitted September 2003, is from Mike Warren:. John S. Blunt was (1798-1835) was born in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire area. His brief career consisted of portraits, landscapes, and marine art, some with luminous qualities that gave special lighting effects to his subject. He also... Read full biography
The following, submitted September 2003, is from Mike Warren:. John S. Blunt was (1798-1835) was born in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire area. His brief career consisted of portraits, landscapes, and marine art, some with luminous qualities that gave special lighting effects to his subject. He also produced ship ornaments and miniatures in his early years. Blunt was married in 1821, and in 1825, he opened an art instruction school in Portsmouth. John S. Blunt moved to Boston in 1831 and took up... Read full biography
The following, submitted September 2003, is from Mike Warren:. John S. Blunt was (1798-1835) was born in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire area. His brief career consisted of portraits, landscapes, and marine art, some with luminous qualities that gave special lighting effects to his subject. He also produced ship ornaments and miniatures in his early years. Blunt was married in 1821, and in 1825, he opened an art instruction school in Portsmouth. John S. Blunt moved to Boston in 1831 and took up residence at 54 Cornhill. Many of John S. Blunt's family were seafaring people. His father was a ships captain. Other family members were also captains. Some experts in the field find his rendering of ships probably the most successful element of his... Read full biography
The following, submitted September 2003, is from Mike Warren:. John S. Blunt was (1798-1835) was born in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire area. His brief career consisted of portraits, landscapes, and marine art, some with luminous qualities that gave special lighting effects to his subject. He also produced ship ornaments and miniatures in his early years. Blunt was married in 1821, and in 1825, he opened an art instruction school in Portsmouth. John S. Blunt moved to Boston in 1831 and took up residence at 54 Cornhill. Many of John S. Blunt's family were seafaring people. His father was a ships captain. Other family members were also captains. Some experts in the field find his rendering of ships probably the most successful element of his work. His later works are thought of as improving as he matured. H... Read full biography
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About John Samuel Blunt: Books
Books & Publications (23)
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The Sketchbooks of John Samuel Blunt
2007
Child, Deborah; Evelyn Lamprey, Diana Korzenil
120 pages (color)
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
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
American Light: The Luminist Movement 1850-1875 (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Wilmerding, John
330 pages (color)
Plain Painters Making Sense of American Folk Art
1988
Vlach, John Michael
206 pages (color)
New Hampshire Scenery
1985
Campbell, Catherine
0 pages
Lines of Different Character Americn Art from 1727 to 1947 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
106 pages (color)
The Art of Healing, Medicine and Science in American Art (Birmingham Museum of Art) (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Gerdts, William H
120 pages (color)
American Folk Portraits from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center
1981
Rumford, Beatrix
295 pages (color)
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
Folk Painters of America
1979
Bishop, Robert
255 pages (color)
Folk Art in America Painting and Sculpture
1979
Ericson, Jack T
275 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
American Marine Painting A Loan Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Virginia Museum
151 pages (color)
American Folk Painters
1975
Ebert, John and Katherine
225 pages (color)
The Genius of American Painting
1973
Wilmerding, John
352 pages (color)
History of American Painting 1760-1835 The Light of Distant Skies
1969
Flexner, James Thomas
307 pages
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
American Marine Painting (2nd Edition)
1968
Wilmerding, John
204 pages (color)
History of American Marine Painting
1968
Wilmerding, John
179 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860