John Quidor (kĬdôr, January 26, 1801 – December 13, 1881) was an American
painter of historical and literary subjects.
John Quidor (kĬdôr, January 26, 1801 – December 13, 1881) was an American
painter of historical and literary subjects.
Biography
Quidor was born in Gloucester Co., N. J., and in 1826 moved to New York City
where he studied painting under John Wesley Jarvis and Henry Inman. Afterward he
lived on a farm near Quincy, Illinois, but returned to New York City in 1851. He
was obliged to support himself by painting the panels of stage coaches and fire
engines and died in abject poverty.
Although Quidor was little appreciated in his own time, after his death he was
accorded a place among the best early American artists. His paintings establish
a mysterious romantic setting for scenes in which he mingled macabre elements
with an earthy humor. Many of his works, such as Ichabod Crane Pursued by the
Headless Horseman, in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, were inspired by the
writings of Washington Irving, who was a personal friend. Irving's A History of
New York gave Quidor the subjects for the four paintings in the Brooklyn (N. Y.)
Institute: Dancing on the Battery (c. 1860), Peter Stuyvesant's Wall Street Gate
(1864), Voyage of the Good Oloff up the Hudson (1866), and The Voyage from
Communipaw to Hell Gate (1866). These show Quidor's characterisic mellow and
harmonious color, poetic imagination, and naďve humor.
He is represented in the Brooklyn Museum by three paintings: Dorothea, Money
Diggers, and Wolfert's Will. He also painted religious subjects such as Jesus
Blessing the Sick.
Gallery of works
The Return of Rip Van Winkle (1849)
The Devil and Tom Walker (1856)
The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane (1858)
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