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Order Nr. 69172 JOHN LEWIS KRIMMEL: GENRE ARTIST OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC. Anneliese Harding

JOHN LEWIS KRIMMEL: GENRE ARTIST OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC.

Winterthur, DE: (Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum), 1994. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 268, (2) pages. First edition. Initially influenced by David Wilkie, William Hogarth and Benjamin West, John Lewis Krimmel was a German immigrant who worked in Philadelphia between 1809 and 1821. Harding traces the development of the artist, who was America's first genre painter, through his sketchbook images and oil paintings. Seven sketchbooks, now in the Winterthur Library, contain about 700..... READ MORE

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Acknowledgments   vii

Introduction   1

Chapter 1: From Amateur to Professional Artist   3

Chapter 2: A Maturing Talent, 1812-1816   33

Chapter 3: Europe Revisited, 1816-1818   91

Chapter 4: Back in Philadelphia, 1819-1820   147

Chapter 5: New Avenues-Collaborations   197

Chapter 6: Evaluation and Legacy   221

Appendix 1: Krimmel's Estate   227

Appendix 2: The Winterthur Sketchbooks   230

Appendix 3: The Svinin Portfolio   235

Appendix 4: Paintings of Disputed Attribution   253

Select Bibliography   256

Index   264