John Vanderlyn Adriadne Abandoned on the Island of Naxos Painting ID:: 4559 John Vanderlyn1.jpg
Adriadne Abandoned on the Island of Naxos 1814
John Vanderlyn Panorama of Versilles Painting ID:: 28032 new3/John Vanderlyn-647592.jpg
Panorama of Versilles c 1816-19
Oil on canvas 3.7 x 50.3cm
(12 x 165ft)
Metropolitan Museum of Art New York (mk63)
John Vanderlyn Panorama du palais et des jardins de Versailles Painting ID:: 31680 new4/John Vanderlyn-628544.jpg
Panorama du palais et des jardins de Versailles mk75
1816-1819
Huile sur toile
3.7x50.3cm
John Vanderlyn Panorama du palais et des jardins de Versailles Painting ID:: 31681 new4/John Vanderlyn-855655.jpg
Panorama du palais et des jardins de Versailles mk75
1816-1819
Huile sur toile
3.7x50.3cm
John Vanderlyn Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos Painting ID:: 32039 new4/John Vanderlyn-759343.jpg
Ariadne Asleep on the Island of Naxos mk77
1809-14
Oil on canvas
68 1/2x87in
John Vanderlyn Columbus Landing at Guanahani, 1492 Painting ID:: 43990 new16/John Vanderlyn-257238.jpg
Columbus Landing at Guanahani, 1492 1492 1837-47
Oil on canvas,
365 x 548 cm
John Vanderlyn Der Tod der Jane McCrae Painting ID:: 45195 new16/John Vanderlyn-232939.jpg
Der Tod der Jane McCrae mk181
1804
Hart-ford
John Vanderlyn Ariadne Painting ID:: 51348 new18/John Vanderlyn-599625.jpg
Ariadne mk218
c.1831-35
Oil on canvas
43.5x49.2cm
John Vanderlyn Andrew Jackson Painting ID:: 51349 new18/John Vanderlyn-598962.jpg
Andrew Jackson mk218
1828
52.4x37.9cm
John Vanderlyn Landing of Columbus Painting ID:: 74289 new24/John Vanderlyn-943745.jpg
Landing of Columbus John Vanderlyn (1775-1852) had studied with Gilbert Stuart and was the first American painter to be trained in Paris, where he worked on this canvas for ten years with the help of assistants.
The dimensions of this oil painting on canvas are 365.76 cm by 548.64 cm (144.00 in by 216.00 in).
Date 1847(1847)
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John Vanderlyn Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles Painting ID:: 90356 new25/John Vanderlyn-439588.jpg
Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles 1818-1819
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Height: 360 cm (141.7 in). Width: 4,950 cm (1,948.7 in).
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John Vanderlyn Caius Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage Painting ID:: 97069 new26/John Vanderlyn-543636.jpg
Caius Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage 1807(1807)
Medium oil on canvas
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1775-1852
John Vanderlyn (October 18, 1775 ?C September 23, 1852) was a American neoclassicist painter, was born at Kingston, New York.
He was employed by a print-seller in New York, and was first instructed in art by Archibald Robinson (1765-1835), a Scotsman who was afterwards one of the directors of the American Academy. He went to Philadelphia, where he spent time in the studio of Gilbert Stuart and copied some of Stuart's portraits, including one of Aaron Burr, who placed him under Gilbert Stuart as a pupil.
He was a proteg?? of Aaron Burr who in 1796 sent Vanderlyn to Paris, where he studied for five years. He returned to the United States in 1801 and lived in the home of Burr, then the Vice President, where he painted the well-known likeness of Burr and his daughter. In 1802 he painted two views of Niagara Falls, which were engraved and published in London in 1804. He returned to Paris in 1803, also visiting England in 1805, where he painted the Death of Miss McCrea for Joel Barlow. Vanderlyn then went to Rome, where he painted his picture of Marius amid the Ruins of Carthage, which was shown in Paris, and obtained the Napoleon gold medal there. This success caused him to remain in Paris for seven years, during which time he prospered greatly. In 1812 he showed a nude Ariadne (engraved by Durand, and now in the Pennsylvania Academy), which increased his fame. When Aaron Burr fled to Paris, Vanderlyn was for a time his only support.
Vanderlyn returned to the United States in 1815, and painted portraits of various eminent men, including Washington (for the U.S. House of Representatives), James Monroe, John C. Calhoun, Governor Joseph C. Yates, Governor George Clinton, Andrew Jackson, and Zachary Taylor. He also exhibited panoramas and had a "Rotunda" built in New York City which displayed panoramas of Paris, Athens, Mexico, Versailles (by himself), and some battle-pieces; but neither his portraits nor the panoramas brought him financial success, partly because he worked very slowly.
In 1842, through friendly influences, he was commissioned by Congress to paint The Landing of Columbus. Going to Paris, he hired a French artist, who, it is said, did most of the work. It was engraved for the United States five-dollar banknotes. He died in poverty at Kingston, New York, on 23 September 1852.
Vanderlyn was the first American to study in France instead of in England, and to acquire accurate draughtsmanship. He was more academic than his fellows; but, though faithfully and capably executed, his work was rather devoid of charm, according to the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. His Landing of Columbus has been called (by Appleton's Cyclopedia) "hardly more than respectable."
His other works include portraits of Monroe, and Robert R Livingston (New York Historical Society).