A self-portrait of 1800 by the American artist John Vanderlyn is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.Met museum; Caldwell & Roque p.254 It is an oil painting showing the artist around the age of twenty four. He had moved to Paris and studied under François-André Vincent. The painting was one of two portraits that Vanderlyn exhibited at the Salon of 1800 at the Louvre. It was particularly praised by Jacques-Louis David whose Neoclassicism was a major influence on Vanderlyn. He presented the painting to his patron Aaron Burr, a politician who served as Vice President, best known for his duel with Alexander Hamilton.Met Museum page; Merrill & Endicott p.195
Four years later he enjoyed success with his history painting The Death of Jane McCrea.Boime p.26-27 He was later commissioned to produce the large Landing of Columbus for the Capitol Rotunda in Washington.
References
Bibliography Boime, Albert. A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 2: Art in an Age of Bonapartism, 1800-1815. University of Chicago Press, 1993. Caldwell, John & Roque, Oswaldo Rodriguez. American Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994. Merrill, Jane & Endicott, John. Aaron Burr in Exile: A Pariah in Paris, 1810-1811. McFarland, 2016.