biografía de John CHILDS (XIX)

Direcciones: NYC, active 1830-c. 1844; Boston, 1845; Philadelphia, 1847- after 1860

Profesión: Lithographer, engraver, painter in oils and watercolors

Exposiciones: American Institute (1845); PAFA (1847)

Comentarios: Childs' earliest lithograph is dated 1830. John and John C. Childs, engraver and colorist respectively, appear at different addresses in the 1834 NYC directory. John C. Childs, colorist, is listed also in 1835, 1836, and 1838. It is probable that these are one and the same person, however, since John Childs' lithographs of 1839 bear the same address as that given for the colorist the year before. Only John Childs, lithographer, appears in the NYC directories from 1840 to 1844. In 1845 he was in Boston, but an oil painting by him was exhibited by John Ingram at the [NYC] American Institute in the same year. Childs had moved to Philadelphia by 1847, when he exhibited two drawings at the Pennsylvania Academy, and he remained there until after 1860.

Fuentes: G&W; Peters, America on Stone; NYCD 1834-44; Boston CD 1845; Am. Inst. Cat., 1845; Rutledge, PA; Phila. CD 1848-60 and after. The 1856 Phila. CD lists a John Child, lithographic engraver, as well as John Childs, lithographer, at different addresses, but this may be an error.