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ID: 500124936
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500124936
 
Record Type: Person
Watson, John (American painter, 1685-1768, born in Scotland)

Note: Two portraits of the James Henderson family ca.1725 have been attributed to John Watson. This evidence confirms his identification with the Van Rensselaer Limner.
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Names:
Watson, John (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA)
John Watson (V,display)
Van Rensselaer Limner (VP)
Watson, John I (V)
John I Watson (V)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
British (modern)
Scottish (Scots, Scotsman)
English

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
miniature painter
draftsman

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Dumfries (Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom) (inhabited place)
Died:  Perth Amboy (Middlesex county, New Jersey, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
immigration:   1714  United States (North and Central America) (nation)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Watson, John (I)

Biographies:
(American painter, 1685-1768, born in Scotland) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American painter, 1685-1768) ..... [BHA]
(American painter 1685-1768) ..... [GRLPA]
(British artist, 1685-1768) ..... [WCP]
(British artist, 1685-1768) ..... [WCI]
(American painter, 18th c.) ..... [BHA]
(British artist, 1685-1768) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(English painter, 1685-1768) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
John I Watson ........ [VP, WL-Courtauld]
...........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
John Watson ........ [VP]
........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Van Rensselaer Limner ........ [BHA, VP]
...........................................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Watson, John ........ [BHA Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, RKD Preferred, WCP Preferred]
..........................  NY Historical Society
..........................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 83044
Watson, John I ........ [WCI Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
.............................  Witt Computer Index database
.............................  Witt Library, Authority files

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, GRLPA, RKD, VP, WCI, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, International Artists Database (1998-2008) accessed 9 January 2009
....................  Art and Antiques 2/5 (1979)
....................  Ask Art [online] (2003) accessed 6 December 2005
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Fielding, Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors, Engravers (1987)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: nr2002018110
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Groce and Wallace, Artists in America (1957)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: nr2002018110
....................  NY Historical Society
....................  Pierson and Davidson, Arts in the United States (1966)
....................  Quimby, American Painting to 1776 (1971)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 83044
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q3791302
....................  Witt Computer Index database
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
....................  Young, Dictionary of American Artists (1968)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... BHA, Authority file (1973-) accessed 13 October 2005
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