biografía de WEAVER (XVIII)

Lugar de nacimiento: England?

Direcciones: NYC about 1797

Profesión: Portrait painter in oils on tin

Comentarios: Painted a portrait of Alexander Hamilton; probably English (Dunlap). This was probably the Joseph Weaver, painter and japanner, who painted allegorical decorations on a musical clock exhibited at Baker's New Museum in NYC in 1794 (Gottesman). Later references to apparently the same artist include: I. Weaver, miniaturist, at NYC in 1796 (NYCD); John Weaver, portrait painter on tin and wood, at Halifax (NS) in 1797-98 (Piers); William J. Weaver, portrait painter, at Charleston (SC) in 1806 when he advertised his portrait of Hamilton (Rutledge); W.J. Weaver, portrait painter on tin, who planned a professional visit to Salem (MA) in 1809 (Belknap); and P.T. Weaver, whom Fielding identified as the Weaver mentioned by Dunlap. Engravings after William J. Weaver's portraits of Dr. George Buist of Charleston and Dr. S. L. Mitchill of NYC were mentioned in Charleston in 1808-11 and 1823, respectively.

Fuentes: G&W; Dunlap, History, II, 64; NYCD 1794; Gottesman, Arts and Crafts in New York, II, no. 1302; NYCD 1796 (McKay); Piers, Robert Field, 144; Rutledge, Artists in the Life of Charleston, 128, 224, 238; Belknap, Artists and Craftsmen of Essex County, 14; Fielding.

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