John Vanderlyn (1775-1852)

• Was a Dutch American neoclassicist painter.
• Vanderlyn was born at Kingston, New York.
• He was the grandson of colonial portrait painter Pieter Vanderlyn.
• He was employed by a print-seller in New York, and was first instructed in art by Archibald Robinson.
• He went to Philadelphia, where he spent time in the studio of Gilbert Stuart.
• In 1825 Vanderlyn was one of the founders of the National Academy of Design.
• Vanderlyn painted portraits of various eminent men, including James Monroe, John C. Calhoun, Governor Joseph C. Yates, Governor George Clinton, James Madison, Robert R. Livingston, Andrew Jackson, and Zachary Taylor.
• In 1834, he completed a posthumous full-length portrait of George Washington for the U.S. House of Representatives, based on Gilbert Stuart's 1796 Lansdowne portrait.
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