Early American Art

John White

• 1580’s

• Leader of the lost colony at Roanoke

• His pictures of Native Americans and vegetation convinced many to invest in or settle in Virginia colony

John Trumbull

• First great American nationalist painter

• Painted battle scenes and portraits depicting Americans as heroic and noble

Paul Revere

• One of the Sons of Liberty

• Drew Political Cartoons

• Published a rabble-rousing but historically dubious account of the Boston Massacre

Charles Willson Peale

• Studied under Benjamin West

• Helped found the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

• Known for portraits

Benjamin West

• Patronage from King George III

• British-American portraits and scene painter

John Singleton Copley

• Best known for portraits

Georgian Architecture

Antebellum Art

Gilbert Stuart

• Premier portrait artist

• Most known for portraits of Washington

Hudson River School

• Mid-19th Century• Romanticized Landscape art• Focused on the Catskill

wilderness and land further west

• Goes hand-in-hand with the beliefs about manifest destiny and westward migration

• Painters included Thomas Cole & Frederic Edwin Church

John J. Audubon

• Illustrated Bird of America

• His name was chosen later to link with bird conservation: The Audubon Society

Architecture in Antebellum Era