biografía de Peter COPMANN (1794-1850)

Lugar de nacimiento: Denmark

Lugar de defunción: Basseterre, Guadeloupe

Direcciones: Brooklyn, active 1834; Charleston, SC, 1834-35; New Orleans, 1837; Louisville, KY, 1848

Profesión: Portrait and landscape painter in oils and pastels

Estudios: l'Académie, 1818

Exposiciones: l'Académie, 1819-20; Copenhagen in 1832; NAD,1834, listed as as Pierce Chopmann

Comentarios: Of Danish origin, Copmann worked in Copenhagen and as an itinerant portrait and landscape painter in Hamburg and Dresden, Germany (1821). He immigrated to the U.S. ca.1834. He was also the inventor of a fixative for pastel pictures. Also known as Pierce Copmann. (Alternate spelling: Chopmann)

Fuentes: G&W; Rutledge, Artists in the Life of Charleston, 154, 177; Cowdrey, NAD; New Orleans CD 1837 (cited by Delgado-WPA); Louisville CD 1848; Charleston (S.C.) CD 1835; Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 86.