American. active1766-1782 A signed portrait (priv. col.) dated 1765 provides the first documentary information on him. He advertised in the New York Journal on 26 November 1767 that he had opened a drawing school, and again on 7 April 1768, announcing his availability as a history painter, though no examples of this activity survive. Like other painters in the colonies, he made his living from portrait painting. His most noted work, the Rapalije Children (1768; New York, NY Hist. Soc.), demonstrates the strong decorative sense, the delicate use of colour and the attempts at sophisticated value and texture application that characterize all his paintings. His skill as a draughtsman is evident in the carefully described details. Here, as in other works, he used a dark outline to define one plane from another, and he imparted a sense of elegance, particularly in the slightly turned heads and animated arms and hands.   Related Paintings of John Durand :. | Selbstportrat | Dioscorides and his disciples | Liegender Akt mit hinter dem Kopf verschrankten Armen | Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne | Step |
Related Artists:
Hermann Eschke
painted Der Fischer in 1823-1900
Henry Roderick Newman
1843-1917
Newman, Willie Betty
American, 1863-1935