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Justus Englehardt Kuhn, Henry Dornell III as a child. c.1710
-wealthy family
-child is painted larger than he actually is
-black slave bringing child food |
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John Smibert. Dean George Berkeley and his family (The Bermuda Group) 1730
-His masterpiece
-George wanted to establish school
-He wants to christianize black people
-school never happened
-Commemorates white supremecy
-Commercially successful |
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John Singleton Copley, Mrs Thomas Boylston, 1770
-elitists mostly bought portraits
-wanted to be a history major |
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John Singleton Copley, Paul Revere. 1770
-Paul is a silversmith
-tools of trade
-teapots were hard to engrave |
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John Singleton Copley. Watson and the Shark, 1780
-youthful misadventure
-romanticism
-contemporary history
-watson rescued 3rd attempt, like jesus
-french were threatening west indies but british empire survives |
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Charles Wilson Peale. General George Washington at the Battle of Princeton, 1780
-"not heroic enough, head too small"
-done to promote patriotism
-defeated British troops at battle |
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Gilbert Stuart, (Lansdowne Portrait), 1795
-huge, idea of grand manner
-wants to imitate kings but not repeat that
-rainbow, peace after storm, revolution
-books=educated people |
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Jean-Antione Houdon. George Washington. 1790
-neoclassical
-plow behind him goes back to his roots
-13 rods=colonies |
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Edward Savage, The Washington Family, 1790
-big, life size
-wearing military outfit, sword
-story of him as family-man |
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Benjamin West. Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus. 1770
-England's best known painter appointed to King
-Commisioned by the bishop
-Very outspoken about American independence
-neoclassical |
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Washington Allston. Elijah in the Desert. 1818
-goes to harvard, studies in London
-studies with west
-history painter melded with landscape
-Newly emerged genre of landscape
-private reverence and sober palette |
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Samuel F.B. Morse. Gallery of the Louvre. 1830
-museum in France
-went to Yale
-studied with Allston
-public didn't like, patron couldn't even buy it |
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