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1751 Stockholm, Sweden - 1811 New Castle County, Delaware. Known for: Portrait, miniature, historical, and figure painting.
Born in Sweden and trained in Paris, Adolph Wertmuller became a painter of portraits and mythological subjects. He painted in the Neo-Classic tradition with mirror-like finishes on his paintings,... Read full biography
Born in Sweden and trained in Paris, Adolph Wertmuller became a painter of portraits and mythological subjects. He painted in the Neo-Classic tradition with mirror-like finishes on his paintings, giving no evidence of his own personality. He first gained prominence in Europe where he was elected an... Read full biography
Born in Sweden and trained in Paris, Adolph Wertmuller became a painter of portraits and mythological subjects. He painted in the Neo-Classic tradition with mirror-like finishes on his paintings, giving no evidence of his own personality. He first gained prominence in Europe where he was elected an academician at the Royal Academies of both France and Sweden. In 1794, he came to the United States briefly and then returned in 1800 after his family lost their money during the French Revolution.... Read full biography
Born in Sweden and trained in Paris, Adolph Wertmuller became a painter of portraits and mythological subjects. He painted in the Neo-Classic tradition with mirror-like finishes on his paintings, giving no evidence of his own personality. He first gained prominence in Europe where he was elected an academician at the Royal Academies of both France and Sweden. In 1794, he came to the United States briefly and then returned in 1800 after his family lost their money during the French Revolution. He had studied in Paris with Joseph- Marie Vien, teacher of the famous Neo-Classical painter Jacques-Louis David. He settled on a farm near Wilmington after marrying Elizabeth Henderson, a Philadelphian and granddaughter of painter Gustaf Hesselius.... Read full biography
Born in Sweden and trained in Paris, Adolph Wertmuller became a painter of portraits and mythological subjects. He painted in the Neo-Classic tradition with mirror-like finishes on his paintings, giving no evidence of his own personality. He first gained prominence in Europe where he was elected an academician at the Royal Academies of both France and Sweden. In 1794, he came to the United States briefly and then returned in 1800 after his family lost their money during the French Revolution. He had studied in Paris with Joseph- Marie Vien, teacher of the famous Neo-Classical painter Jacques-Louis David. He settled on a farm near Wilmington after marrying Elizabeth Henderson, a Philadelphian and granddaughter of painter Gustaf Hesselius. Source:. Matthew Baigell, Dictionary of American Art... Read full biography
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Keywords (23)
Art Method
- •Miniature Art
- •Miniature, Small Scale Painting
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •George Washington
- •History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Portraits: Notables, Society, Celebrity, Historical and/or Royalty
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Colonial America
- •Europe
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art School
- •Yale University School of Fine Art and Architecture, Student
Chronology
- •18th Century
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Miniature Specialty
- •Portrait Specialty
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts