biografía de Jean BELZONS (XVIII)

Lugar de nacimiento: France

Direcciones: worked primarily in Charleston, c.1792-1812

Profesión: Miniaturist, drawing teacher, scene painter

Estudios: claimed to have studied under David in France

Comentarios: He escaped the French Revolution and arrived in Charleston about 1792. In 1794, he married the sister of Thomas Sully and subsequently became Sully's first teacher. Belzon worked in Charleston until 1812, painting miniatures, portraits, scenery, and transparencies, as well as teaching. In 1796 he visited Savannah (GA) and in 1798 Georgetown and Camden (SC).

Fuentes: G&W; Rutledge, Artists in the Life of Charleston, 126, 147, 153, 186; Prime, II, 3-4; Biddle and Fielding, Life of Sully, 4; Dunlap, History (1918), II, 114, 238-39. More recently, see Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 2: 46.