Pieter Vanderlyn (ca. 1687-1778)

• Was an American colonial painter.
• Pieter Vanderlyn was born in Holland.
•  He studied in Amsterdam, and served with the Dutch navy off the coast of Africa probably as a surgeon.
• From here he went to Curaçao before moving to New York in 1718.
• He made his living as a portrait painter.
• His paintings were completed between 1730 and 1745 and were all unsigned.
• Vanderlyn was living in Kingston during the American Revolutionary War until British forces burned the city on October 13, 1777.

• This event forced him to flee to his son's home in Shawangunk, where he died the following year.

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