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Here are all the paintings of Jean Leon Gerome Ferris 01

ID	Painting	Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z	Painting Description
96770		Baigneuses	oil on canvas, 62x46 cm cyf
72768		Betsy Ross	Title Betsy Ross 1777 Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
71575		Betsy Ross 1777	Oil on canvas
75082		Birth of Pennsylvania	Artist Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863-1930) Title The Birth of Pennsylvania 1680 Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
73965		Building the Cradle of Liberty	Building the Cradle of Liberty Oil on canvas cjr
75469		Building the Cradle of Liberty	Title Building the Cradle of Liberty Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
73967		Captain Kidd in New York Harbor	Captain Kidd in New York Harbor Oil on canvas cjr
75474		Captain Kidd in New York Harbor	Title Captain Kidd in New York Harbor Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
73964		Franklin's Return to Philadelphia, 1785	Franklin's Return to Philadelphia, 1785 Oil on canvas cjr
75468		Franklins Return to Philadelphia	Title Franklin's Return to Philadelphia, 1785 Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
75077		Landing of William Penn	Title The Landing of William Penn Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
75079		Mayflower Compact	Artist Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863-1930) Title The Mayflower Compact, 1620 Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
73404		The Birth of Pennsylvania 1680	Oil on canvas cjr
73966		The Fall of New Amsterdam	The Fall of New Amsterdam Oil on canvas cjr
75472		The Fall of New Amsterdam	Title The Fall of New Amsterdam Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
73552		The First Thanksgiving	ca. between 1912(1912) and 1915(1915) Oil on canvas cjr
73399		The Landing of William Penn	Oil on canvas cjr
73402		The Mayflower Compact, 1620	Oil on canvas cjr
74274		Washington's Inaugration at Philadelphia	Oil on canvas cjr
75078		Writing the Declaration of Independence	Title Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776 Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
73401		Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776	Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776 Oil on canvas cjr

Jean Leon Gerome Ferris

(August 18, 1863 - March 18, 1930) was an American painter best known for his series of 78 scenes from American history, entitled The Pageant of a Nation, the largest series of American historical paintings by a single artist. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Stephen James Ferris, a portrait painter and a devotee of Jean-L??on G??rôme (after whom he was named) and Mariano Fortuny.He grew up around art, having been trained by his father and having two acclaimed painters, Edward Moran and Thomas Moran, as uncles. Ferris enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1879 and trained further at the Acad??mie Julian beginning in 1883 under William-Adolphe Bouguereau.He also met his namesake G??rôme, who greatly influenced Ferris's decision to paint scenes from American history. As Ferris wrote in his unpublished autobiography, "[G??rôme's] axiom was that one would paint best that with which he is most familiar". However, initially his subjects were Orientalist in nature, that movement having been in vogue when he was young. Some of his material was original, some of it took after Fortuny, but he was skilled enough, despite never having had any experience with Asia. In 1882, he exhibited a painting entitled Feeding the Ibis, which was valued at $600. By 1895, Ferris had gained a reputation as a historical painter, and he embarked on his dream of creating a series of paintings that told a historical narrative. In 1898 he sold one of these, General Howe's Levee, 1777, but he later regretted it, realizing that such a series could not be complete if the separate paintings could not be kept together. As such, he never sold another one of those, but he did sell the reproduction rights to various publishing companies. This later would have the effect of greatly popularizing his work, as these companies made prints, postcards, calendars and blank-backed trade cards use in advertisements. Laminated cards of these works were still being sold as late as 1984. The Landing of William PennThe paintings showed idealized portrayals of famous moments from American history, but were often historically inaccurate. The Landing of William Penn, for example, shows Penn being greeted at New Castle by American Indians who are clothed in the tradition of tribes from the Great Plains. In The First Thanksgiving 1621, the black outfits the Pilgrims are shown wearing are wrong, and the Wampanoag did not wear feathered war bonnets, nor would they have been sitting on the ground. The complete series was shown at Independence Hall in Philadelphia from 1913 to 1930, then moved next door to Congress Hall. In later years it was shown in a number of locations, including the Smithsonian Institution, before being returned to the Ferris family.

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