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John Quidor The Return of Rip van Winkle 1829
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John Quidor The Gold Diggers
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John Quidor The Money Diggers mk7
16 5/8x21 1/2in
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John Quidor The Money Diggers mk140
1832
Oil on canvas
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John Quidor Rip Van Winkles Ruckkehr mk181
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John Quidor Wolfert's Will ca. 1856(1856)
Oil on canvas
68 x 86 cm (26.77 x 33.86 in)
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John Quidor Dorothea ca. 1823(1823)
Oil on canvas
71 x 58.5 cm (27.95 x 23.03 in)
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John Quidor The Money Diggers ca. 1832(1832)
Oil on canvas
40.5 x 53.2 cm (15.94 x 20.94 in)
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John Quidor Wolfert's Will Date ca. 1856(1856)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 68 X 86 cm (26.77 X 33.86 in)
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John Quidor Dorothea Date ca. 1823(1823)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 71 X 58.5 cm (27.95 X 23.03 in)
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John Quidor Money Diggers Date ca. 1832(1832)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 40.5 X 53.2 cm (15.94 X 20.94 in)
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John Quidor The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane oil, 26 7/8 x 33 7/8 in., 1858
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John Quidor
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1801-1888
Quidor was born in Gloucester Co., N. J., and in 1826 moved to New York City where he studied painting under John Wesley Jarvis and Henry Inman. Afterward he lived on a farm near Quincy, Illinois, but returned to New York City in 1851. He was obliged to support himself by painting the panels of stage coaches and fire engines and died in abject poverty.
Although Quidor was little appreciated in his own time, after his death he was accorded a place among the best early American artists. His paintings establish a mysterious romantic setting for scenes in which he mingled macabre elements with an earthy humor. Many of his works, such as Ichabod Crane Pursued by the Headless Horseman, in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, were inspired by the writings of Washington Irving, who was a personal friend. Irving's A History of New York gave Quidor the subjects for the four paintings in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Institute: Dancing on the Battery (c. 1860), Peter Stuyvesant's Wall Street Gate (1864), Voyage of the Good Oloff up the Hudson (1866), and The Voyage from Communipaw to Hell Gate (1866). These show Quidor's characteristic mellow and harmonious color, poetic imagination, and naïve humor.
He is represented in the Brooklyn Museum by three paintings: Dorothea, Money Diggers, and Wolfert's Will. He also painted religious subjects such as Jesus Blessing the Sick.
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