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American, c. 1687 - 1778
Pieter Vanderlyn is accepted by some scholars as the artist currently identified as The Gansevoort Limner. He was born in Holland about 1687 and came to New York from Curaçao around 1718. He was primarily a portrait painter. Early records and the locations in which his sitters lived indicate that he traveled frequently between Albany and Kingston, residing at various times in each city. In 1777 the British burned Kingston, forcing Vanderlyn to move to his son's home in Shawangunk, New York, where he died the following year. [This is an edited version of the artist's biography published in the NGA Systematic Catalogue]