Jeremiah Paul (1775-1820)

• Was an American painter.
• Jeremiah Paul, Jr. came of age as an artist under the aegis of Charles Willson Peale.
• Paul was a Philadelphia Quaker.
• Born in Gloucester County, New Jersey, directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia.
• His birthdate, estimated to have been between 1771 and 1776, remains uncertain.
• The Pauls were members of an extended Quaker clan resident on the New Jersey side of the river.

• In the summer of 1794, Paul executed a series of local landscape sketches along the Schuylkill River.

• Paul seems to have lived in Philadelphia working as a jack-of-all-trades artist until about 1802.
• It was during this period that he painted his most ambitious documented works, the present Washington Family, Manumission of Dinah Nevill (about 1795, Milwaukee Art Museum), and Four Children in a Courtyard (1795, Philadelphia Museum of Art).
• Paul showed three paintings at the annual exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1811.
• In 1819, a year before his death, he sent Holy Family, again identified as “after unnamed artist.”
• Paul’s death in St. Louis, Missouri, in July 1820 is documented by a newspaper notice.
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