John Wollaston

American, active c. 1742 - 1775

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English portrait painter (1710-1775)

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John Wollaston, A Gentleman of the Morris Family, 1749/1752, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1942.8.41

A Gentleman of the Morris Family

John Wollaston · 1749/1752 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.8.41

John Wollaston, John Stevens (?), c. 1749-1752, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1947.17.103

John Stevens (?)

John Wollaston · c. 1749-1752 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1947.17.103

John Wollaston, Mary Walton Morris, 1749/1752, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1942.8.40

Mary Walton Morris

John Wollaston · 1749/1752 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1942.8.40

John Wollaston, Unidentified British Navy Officer, c. 1745, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1947.17.105

Unidentified British Navy Officer

John Wollaston · c. 1745 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1947.17.105

Bibliography

1931

  • Bolton, Theodore, and Harry Lorin Binsse. "Wollaston, An Early American Portrait Manufacturer" The Antiquarian 16 (June 1931): 30-33, 50, 52.

1952

  • Groce, George C. "John Wollaston (Fl. 1736-1767): A Cosmopolitan Painter in the British Colonies." Art Quarterly 15, no. 2 (Summer 1952): 132-149.

1975

  • Craven, Wayne. "John Wollaston: His Career in England and New York City." American Art Journal 7 (1975): 19-31.

1976

  • Weekley, Carolyn. "John Wollaston, Portrait Painter: His Career in Virginia, 1754-1758." M.A. thesis, University of Delaware, 1976.

1987

  • Saunders and Miles 1987, 176-182.

1995

  • Miles, Ellen G. American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 351-352.