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1781 Auburn, Massachusetts - 1858 Wethersfield, Connecticut. Known for: Naive portrait-life size painting.
Born in Auburn, Massachusetts, Zedekiah Belknap became an itinerant limner whose specialty was life-size portraits. Likely without formal art training, he was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1807,... Read full biography
Born in Auburn, Massachusetts, Zedekiah Belknap became an itinerant limner whose specialty was life-size portraits. Likely without formal art training, he was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1807, and then painted portraits in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York City and Massachusetts. He had a... Read full biography
Born in Auburn, Massachusetts, Zedekiah Belknap became an itinerant limner whose specialty was life-size portraits. Likely without formal art training, he was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1807, and then painted portraits in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York City and Massachusetts. He had a stylized formula that his subjects found pleasing and that allowed him to paint fast. He used bright colors and paid close attention to details, yet had a minimum of apparent brush strokes. His faces... Read full biography
Born in Auburn, Massachusetts, Zedekiah Belknap became an itinerant limner whose specialty was life-size portraits. Likely without formal art training, he was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1807, and then painted portraits in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York City and Massachusetts. He had a stylized formula that his subjects found pleasing and that allowed him to paint fast. He used bright colors and paid close attention to details, yet had a minimum of apparent brush strokes. His faces usually had a red shadow. He painted on wood panels, scored with diagonal lines to emulate canvas. He completed about 170 portraits and ended his career in 1848 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Usually he did not sign his paintings, but when he did the... Read full biography
Born in Auburn, Massachusetts, Zedekiah Belknap became an itinerant limner whose specialty was life-size portraits. Likely without formal art training, he was a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1807, and then painted portraits in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York City and Massachusetts. He had a stylized formula that his subjects found pleasing and that allowed him to paint fast. He used bright colors and paid close attention to details, yet had a minimum of apparent brush strokes. His faces usually had a red shadow. He painted on wood panels, scored with diagonal lines to emulate canvas. He completed about 170 portraits and ended his career in 1848 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Usually he did not sign his paintings, but when he did the signature was Z. Belknap. Source: . Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"
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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 pagesMeet Your Neighbors New England Portraits, Painters/1790-1850
1992
(Exhibition catalog)Larkin, Jack (others)143 pages (color)American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts (vol 1)
1991Detroit Institute of the Arts340 pages (color)Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990Gerdts, William H421 pages (color)Art in Embasies Twenty-Five Years at the State Department
1989Greenwood, Dougles McCreary63 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 Folk Portraits from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center
1981Rumford, Beatrix295 pages (color)Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel736 pagesAmerican Folk Painting William E Wiltshire Collection
1978
(Exhibition catalog)Woodward, Richard B110 pages (color)Portrait Painting in America The Nineteenth Century
1977Miles, Ellen G (editor)176 pages (color)Where Liberty Dwells 19th Century Art by the American People
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Tillou, Peter114 pages (color)American Folk Painters
1975Ebert, John and Katherine225 pages (color)19th Century American Painting From the Collection of Henry Melville Fuller
1971
(Exhibition catalog)Gerdts, William H92 pagesThe New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957Groce, George; David Wallace759 pagesSome American Primitives of New England Faces and Folk Portraits
1941Sears, Clara Endicott291 pagesA History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (Revised edition from 1834)
1918Dunlap, William418 pages