Background
John Hesselius was born in 1728 in Philadelphia, Pennslyvania, United States, the son of Gustavus Hesselius and his wife, Lydia.
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John Hesselius was born in 1728 in Philadelphia, Pennslyvania, United States, the son of Gustavus Hesselius and his wife, Lydia.
John first learned to paint under his father’s tutelage.
While his early portraits show the effect of his father’s teaching, during the fifties he came under the influence of John Wollaston, the English artist who “in the grand style” painted very extensively in Maryland and Virginia at this time. Not only the “almond eyes” but a certain similarity in the pose of the figure characterized the work of both artists. In the later sixties and down to the time of his death in 1778 Hesselius’ work deteriorated, portraits painted during the last ten years of his life being rather wooden and stereotyped in their execution. At this period nearly all the women he painted looked middle-aged and strangely similar, and were dressed in costumes almost identical. In only a slightly lesser degree is the same similarity to be found in his portraits of men and of children.
To say that Hesselius was the equal of any American-born artist whose career was confined to the pre-Revolutionary period is perhaps fainter praise than he really deserves. The portraits of Samuel Chew and his wife, and the three charming portraits of the children of Benedict Calvert, show strongly the Wollaston influence. The later portrait of Governor Johnson in the Maryland Historical Society and that of his wife, and those of Mrs. John Moale and of Col. Edward Fell and his wife, are typical of the more conventionalized style which usually characterized his later work. Many of Hesselius’ portraits are found signed. Occasionally they are dated and signed on the front, but the great majority of his portraits show in his large, clear, round handwriting on the back of the canvas the name and age of the subject, as well as the signature of the artist and the date.
Hesselius lived until his death at “Bellefield, ” a fine plantation of about a thousand acres on the Severn River near Annapolis, which he acquired through his wife. He had the affection and respect of the community in which he lived and was for several years a vestryman and warden of St. Anne’s Church, Annapolis. Although of independent means he continued to work actively at his profession until within a short time of his death. He died in his fiftieth year and is buried on his plantation.
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Quotes from others about the person
“Hesselius by whom the greater part of the family portraits in the old mansions of Maryland was painted, and that in a respectable manner. ” - Robert Gilmor
On one of his frequent painting expeditions to Maryland Hesselius met and married, on January 30, 1763, a wealthy young woman, Mary Woodward. She was the widow of Henry Woodward of “Primrose Hill, ” an Anne Arundel County planter, and the daughter of Col. Richard Young who lived near Annapolis. This marriage into the prominent Young family insured Hesselius the patronage of the wealthy landholding aristocracy of the province.