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Birth
1801 (Tappan, New York)
Death
1881 (Jersey City, New Jersey)
Lived/Active
New York
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literary novel illustrator, narrative genre
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| John Quidor was from a French-Swiss background; his grandfather Pierre
Quidor was a Revolutionary War patriot. John Quidor was born in
1801 in Tappan, New York and when he was nine, the family moved to New
York City. He became apprenticed to a portrait painter, John W.
Jarvis, and was inspired to a degree by his fellow pupil Henry
Inman. Quidor exhibited Ichabod Crane Pursued by the Headless Horseman
at the National Academy of Design in 1828. The painting, now in t (showing 500 of 3122 characters). |
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