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John A. Sidell

ca. 1830
Not on view
John A. Sidell (1794–1850) was a friend of Vanderlyn and his agent in New York from 1830 to 1840. Little is known of Sidell's career except that he was a master in chancery and an attorney at law. Their friendship ended when Sidell worsened Vanderlyn's financial difficulties by failing to repay a loan. The portrait was probably painted shortly before it was first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in New York in 1830. It demonstrates a loosening of Vanderlyn's once crisp neoclassicism, as the artist adapted to the popular style of New York painters Samuel L. Waldo and William Jewett.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: John A. Sidell
  • Artist: John Vanderlyn (American, Kingston, New York 1775–1852 Kingston, New York)
  • Date: ca. 1830
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm)
  • Credit Line: Bequest of C. V. Sidell, 1899
  • Object Number: 02.25
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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