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The Rapalje Children
Painting ID:: 31909
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The Rapalje Children
mk77
c.1768
Oil on canvas
50 3/4x40in
mk77
c.1768
Oil_on_canvas
50_3/4x40in
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Settling the Bill
Painting ID:: 31910
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Settling the Bill
mk77
1852
Oil on wood
19 1/2x24in
mk77
1852
Oil_on_wood
19_1/2x24in
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RapaljeChildren
Painting ID:: 67715
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RapaljeChildren
Author John Durand
Author_John_Durand
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John Durand
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American.
active1766-1782
A signed portrait (priv. col.) dated 1765 provides the first documentary information on him. He advertised in the New York Journal on 26 November 1767 that he had opened a drawing school, and again on 7 April 1768, announcing his availability as a history painter, though no examples of this activity survive. Like other painters in the colonies, he made his living from portrait painting. His most noted work, the Rapalije Children (1768; New York, NY Hist. Soc.), demonstrates the strong decorative sense, the delicate use of colour and the attempts at sophisticated value and texture application that characterize all his paintings. His skill as a draughtsman is evident in the carefully described details. Here, as in other works, he used a dark outline to define one plane from another, and he imparted a sense of elegance, particularly in the slightly turned heads and animated arms and hands. |
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