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Birth
1780 (South Shield, England)
Death
1840 (New York, New York)
Lived/Active
New York
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A portrait painter in New York, John Wesley Jarvis was a leading Knickerbocker artist who had a close friendship with Washington Irving and painted his portrait. Increasingly as he pursued his career, he traveled to distant cities including New Orleans where he spent many winters from 1820 to 1834 and worked as a portraitist.
He was born in South Shield, England and was a nephew of theologian John Wesley. At age five, he was brought to Philadelphia where he apprenticed in engraving to Edw (showing 500 of 965 characters). |
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