biografía de Maximilian GODEFROY (c.1770-c.1842)

Profesión: Landscape painter and architect

Exposiciones: Soc. Artists, Phila., 1811, 1813 (many arch. drawings & other sketches); Royal Acad., London (as P.M.F. Godefroy of Pennsylvania), 1820, 1824 (nine landscapes)

Comentarios: A French architect who was imprisoned by Napoleon, Godefroy was freed to come to America about 1805. He spent time in Philadelphia then settled in Baltimore, where he taught at St. Mary's Seminary and designed a number of buildings and monuments. After leaving the United States in 1819, Godefroy spent a few years in London and returned to France in 1827. Also appears as P.M F. Godefroy.

Fuentes: G&W; Pleasants, 250 Years of Painting in Maryland, no. 72; Rutledge, PA; Antiques (Jan. 1945), 39, repro.; Thieme-Becker cites Herberman, Sulpicians in the United States, and Scharf, Chronicles of Baltimore; Dunlap, History, II, 379.