Born and raised in Kingston, New York, John Vanderlyn had the desire to be a great history painter but did portraits and landscapes including panoramas to earn a living. He became the first American painter to study in Paris, where he had training in neo-classicism as espoused by Jacques-Louis David and Jean-Auguste Ingres. It was a style of "strong line, especially in the molding of figures, somber coloration, and an adherence to antique and mythological subjects or poses." (Zellman 81)
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Painters of Nudes
Paris Pre 1900
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