Pieter Vanderlyn mk77
c.1730-40
Oil on canvas
44 3/4x35 1/4in
Pau de Wandelaer Dutch-born American Colonial Era Painter, ca.1687-1778
American colonial painter, b. Holland. He reached New York c.1718 and became a portrait painter and land speculator and practiced other trades, settling in Kingston, N.Y. The portrait most certainly ascribed to him is that of Mrs. Petrus Vas, his mother-in-law. John Vanderlyn was his grandson.
