John Wesley Jarvis

American, 1780 - 1840

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American artist (1781-1839)

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John Wesley Jarvis, Commodore John Rodgers, c. 1814, oil on canvas, Gift of Nannie R. and Christina Macomb, 1943.14.1

Commodore John Rodgers

John Wesley Jarvis · c. 1814 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1943.14.1

John Wesley Jarvis, Thomas Paine, c. 1806/1807, oil on canvas, Gift of Marian B. Maurice, 1950.15.1

Thomas Paine

John Wesley Jarvis · c. 1806/1807 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1950.15.1

John Wesley Jarvis, Irish Fisherman, black chalk and graphite on laid paper, John Davis Hatch Collection, 1979.20.68

Irish Fisherman

John Wesley Jarvis · · black chalk and graphite on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1979.20.68

Bibliography

1869

  • Dunlap, William. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States. 2 vols. 1834: 2:72-96.

1938

  • Bolton, Theodore, and George C. Croce, Jr. "John Wesley Jarvis: An Account of His Life and the First Catalogue of His Work." The Art Quarterly 1 (Autumn 1938): 299-321.

1949

  • Dickson, Harold E. John Wesley Jarvis, American Painter, 1780-1840. New York, 1949.

1996

  • Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 361.