John Wesley Jarvis
(1780–1840) American artist (1781-1839)
John Wesley Jarvis (USA, 1780–1840) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, John Wesley Jarvis belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.
John Wesley Jarvis was born in South Shields and died in New York City.
The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 72 works by John Wesley Jarvis with free images. The dated works span the years 1805–1833. Works by John Wesley Jarvis are held by several collections, among them New York Historical, National Portrait Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Cleveland Museum of Art.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Rembrandt Peale, Washington Allston, Thomas Birch, Jan Damel, and Edward Hicks.