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John Hesselius

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Birthplace: Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA, United States
Death: April 09, 1778 (49-50)
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA, United States
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Son of Gustavus Hesselius, Sr and Lydia Hesselius
Husband of Mary Dorsey
Father of Caroline Hesselius; John Hesselius; Charlotte Johnsson and Elizabeth Dulany Addison
Brother of Andreas Hesselius; Elizabeth Hesselius; Sarah Hesselius; Maria Hesselia and Lydia Hesselius

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About John Hesselius, Artist

Born to a Swedish family, John Hesselius became one of the leading portrait painters in the Mid-Atlantic colonies. He is noted as one of the earliest teacher of Charles Willson Peale, who later became one of America's best-known colonial artists and whom Hesselius met at Annapolis in the early 1760s.

He first studied with his father, Gustavus Hesselius, a painter of portraits and religious subjects, but it is not thought that his father had much influence on his style.

Settled in Maryland and painted more than a hundred portraits of Southern and Philadelphia families. He was an early instructor of Charles Willson Peale

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John Hesselius (1728–1778) was a portraitist who worked mostly in Virginia and Maryland. He was the son of the Swedish-born portraitist Gustavus Hesselius.



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John Hesselius, Artist's Timeline

1728
1728
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA, United States

Claims that he was born in Prince George's County, Maryland are unfounded, for his father Gustavus had sold his farm in the county in 1726, two years prior to John's birth.

1769
1769
1775
February 2, 1775
Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Province of Maryland
1777
1777
1778
April 9, 1778
Age 50
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA, United States
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