Item #51-4105 Portrait of Aaron Burr. Vice President of the United States. 1802. First edition of the engraving. John Vanderlyn, engraver John A. O'Neill, 1776 – 1852.

Portrait of Aaron Burr. Vice President of the United States. 1802. First edition of the engraving.

Washington, DC: 1802. Stipple engraving . 6 x 4.75 inches image size. Margins. Matted..
John Vanderlyn was born October 15, 1775, in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, the son of house and sign painter Nicholas Vanderlyn and his second wife Sarah Tappan; his grandfather was the Dutch immigrant and limner Pieter Vanderlyn (ca. 1687-1778). After completing his education at the prestigious Kingston Academy he went to New York City and worked at an art supply and engraving shop. He studied art at Alexander and Archibald Robinson's Columbian Academy of Painting. Vanderlyn soon attracted the attention of Aaron Burr, who provided him with financial support and patronage for the next twenty years. Burr arranged for him to briefly study with Gilbert Stuart in Philadelphia, and then sent him to Paris in 1796. Vanderlyn enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under the history painter and portraitist Francois-Andre Vincent. He copied works by the Old Masters at the Louvre, and met Robert Fulton, who stimulated his interest in panoramic painting.... Provenance: W. Bruce Fye. Item #51-4105

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