Artist: John Vanderlyn (1775 - 1852)
Nationality: American
Movement: Neoclassicism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
American painter, John Vanderlyn spent most of his career living in New York City. He traveled to Europe from 1796 to 1815 where he practiced his Neoclassical and Romantic style of painting. He was the first American painter to study in Paris. His most famous painting, Ariadne Asleep on Naxos is considered the best American nude before Eakins. Vanderlyn was successful in France but did not fare as well in the States. He worked as portraitist and died in poverty.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Palace and Gardens of Versailles, 1818-1819 John Vanderlyn (1775-1852)AmericanOil on canvas; 12 x 165
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Vanderlyn, Caius Marius Amidst the Ruins of Carthage, 1807
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John Vanderlyn - John Sudam 1829-1830 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Vanderlyn - Zachariah Schoonmaker 1815-1818 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
Museum of Fine Arts -
John Vanderlyn, American, 1775-1852 Portrait of Washington Irving Graphite pencil on board. Sheet: 24.3 x
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John Vanderlyn - The Place and Gardens of Versailles 1818-19 oil on canvas The Metropolitan Museum of Art American
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John Vanderlyn, Jr. - Still Life: Fruit in a Classical Setting c. 1854-58 oil on canvas Albany Institute of History and Art American
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John Vanderlyn - Mary Ellis Bell (Mrs. Issac Bell) c. 1827 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Kay, John Campbell of Blythewood, 1784
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John Steuart Curry - John Brown 1938 Lithograph Arkansas Arts Center American
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John Singleton Copley - John Greene c. 1769 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art American
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John Wollaston - John Stevens c. 1749-1752 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - Mrs. John Greene 1769 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - John Gray 1766 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Sartain, Portrait of John A. Sutter, 1850
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Smibert, John Nelson, 1732
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John Hoppner - John Granville 1790-95 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art English
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John Frazee - John Marshall 1834-35 marble Boston Athenaeum American
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John Smibert - Mrs. John Pitts 1735 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John Johnston - John Peck c. 1795 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Durand - John Lothrop c. 1770 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Durand - Mrs. John Lothrop c. 1770 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Charles Willson Peale - Mrs. John Nicholson (Hannah Duncan) and John Nicholson, Jr. 1790 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Smith, John Duke of Marlborough, 1705
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Stuart Curry, John Brown, 1939
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Smith, Sir John Percival Bart, 1704
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John B. Neagle, William Helmuth (or John Henry Helmuth), 1834
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John Singleton Copley - Portrait of John Scollay 1764 black and white chal Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts American
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John R. Johnston - Mrs. John R. Johnston before 1857 salted paper print f Cleveland Museum of Art American
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John Singleton Copley - The Honorable John Erving c. 1774 oil on canvas Smith College Museum of Art American
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Portrait of a Man, Said to Be John Durham, ca. 1790 John Barry (British, active
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: artist unknown Title: Tapestry Fragment of Virgin and St. John Date: about 1520 -
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Faber the Younger, St. John, Apostle and Evangelist, 1754
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John Singleton Copley - Colonel John Montresor c. 1771 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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John Wesley Jarvis - Commodore John Rodgers c. 1814 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John James Audubon, Douglass" Squirrel, a study for pl. 48 ofViviparous Quadripeds of North America by John James Audubon and Rev. John Bachman (New York: John James Audubon, 1845-1848), circa 1843
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Sartain, John Calvin, 19th century
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John Smith, John Lambert the Elder, (after same), 17th - 18th century
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John Trumbull - John Trumbull 1793 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
John Hall, King John, Act IV, Scene I, 18th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (1)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: American Drawings and Watercolors: Highlights from the Collection, 1710-1890
The exhibition will offer a rare opportunity to see many of the Museum's American works on paper, which – due to their fragile nature and sensitivity to light – are displayed only periodically. The often informal character or preparatory function ...

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John Vanderlyn -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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