To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
Languages
Recent
Show all languages
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

John Watson (American painter)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John Watson
self-portrait, 1720
Born28 July 1685 Edit this on Wikidata
Dumfries and Galloway Edit this on Wikidata
Died22 August 1768 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 83)
Perth Amboy Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationPainter Edit this on Wikidata

John Watson (1685 – August 22, 1768) was an early American painter, born in Scotland.

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/3
    Views:
    910
    80 353
    3 056
  • Raymond Watson Artist at work.
  • Growing as an Artist - Steve Huston Interview
  • Watson and the Shark, 1778, John Singleton Copley

Transcription

Early life

Watson was born in Scotland in 1685, probably near Dumfries. He worked initially painting house interiors, before turning to portraiture.[1]

Work in America

In 1715 he emigrated to Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Watson bought property in the city east of Rector Street and south of St. Peter's Episcopal Church on the Perth Amboy bluffs and built himself a house in which to reside and one to keep his paintings. Early historian William Dunlap believed this to be the first collection of art in America.[2] In 1776, his nephew, Alexander Watson, who was heir to his estate, withdrew from Perth Amboy, which was under pressure from colonial forces under General Hugh Mercer. Soldiers raided Watson's collection and, according to Dunlap, probably distributed and destroyed many of the portraits of English heroes and kings.[2] Contrary to Dunlap's knowledge, however, numerous portraits by Watson still exist today. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has a portrait of Governor William Keith (shown on the left) and his wife, Lady Ann Keith née Newberry or Newbury, and the Brooklyn Museum has his portrait of Governor Lewis Morris. The New Jersey Historical Society has two portraits: one of William Eier, the first mayor of Perth Amboy, and one of Governor William Burnet. Watson died in 1768 and is buried in St. Peter's Episcopal Cemetery in Perth Amboy.

Gallery

Artworks

Year Title Image Collection Comments
1718 Portrait of Hermanus Wendell, oil IAP 60940560
1726 Portrait of Governor Lewis Morris (c. 1726), oil on linen
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York Subject: Lewis Morris (1671-1746); chief justice of Province of New York; Royal Provincial Governor of Province of New Jersey. IAP 35680394
1726 Portrait of Governor William Burnet (c. 1726), oil on canvas
Massachusetts State House, Boston, Massachusetts Subject: William Burnet (1688-1729); Royal Provincial Governor of Province of New York (1720-1728); Royal Provincial Governor of Province of Massachusetts Bay (1728-1729). IAP 82110142, IAP 81980002, IAP 33220002 and IAP 18830380
Self-portrait, painting IAP 24050046
Portrait of David Lyell (c. 1715-1725), miniature painting, graphite pencil and watercolor on vellum Subject: lived 1670-1725. IAP 07262091
Vase of Flowers with Grapes and Cherries, oil IAP 70080681
Venus and Cupid, ink on vellum Exhibited: Chronological Exhibition of American Art, Brooklyn, New York, 1872.[3]

Attributed artworks

Year Title Image Collection Comments
1735 Portrait of Jan Baptist Van Rensselaer (c. 1735), oil on canvas view Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, New York Subject: lived 1717-1763.

References

  1. ^ Encyclopedia of New Jersey. Rutgers University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8135-3325-4.
  2. ^ a b Dunlap, William. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Design in the United States. C.E. Goodspeed & Co: Boston, 1918.
  3. ^ Koehler, S. R.; Wilmot-Buxton, H. J. (1883). English Painters with a Chapter on American Painters. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London.

Sources

This page was last edited on 17 March 2024, at 03:30
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.