biografía de John V. CORNELL (XIX)

Direcciones: NYC, 1838-49; California, 1851-52

Profesión: Landscape and marine painter, illustrator

Exposiciones: NAD (1844); American Institute (1844, 1845, and 1847)

Obra: NYHS (a view of the Hudson River Highlands from Newburgh, NY, painted in 1838); Mariners Mus., Newport News, VA

Comentarios: He was listed in NYC directories from 1843 to 1847. He was George Heister's (see entry) assistant in the painting of a Hudson River panorama, shown in NYC in December 1849, and was an illustrator for Life in America (Boston, 1851).

Fuentes: G&W; NYHS files; NYCD 1843-47; Cowdrey, NAD; Am. Inst. Cats.; N.Y. Herald, Dec. 12, 1849 (cited by J.E. Arrington). More recently, see Hughes, Artists of California, 117; Brewington, 94