John Hesselius (1728–1778)

• Was an American portraitist.
• He worked mostly in Virginia and Maryland.
• He was the son of the Swedish-born portraitist Gustavus Hesselius.
• John Hesselius worked "exclusively in the late English Baroque and English Rococo traditions.
• Hesselius' works often lack warmth, containing generic, repetitive facial features.
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