Portrait of the Artist
Gift of Mrs. G.P.A. Healy
Catalogue
- Year
- 1815
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.3 × 63 cm (30 × 23 3/4 in.); Framed: 97.2 × 83.9 × 8.9 cm (38 1/4 × 33 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- John Baptist Jackson
Artist
John Baptist Jackson (1701–1780) was a British artist, a woodcut printmaker of the eighteenth century. He lived and worked in Paris and Venice. Jackson was prolific, ambitious and innovative within the medium, and produced both chiaroscuro and polychrome prints, as well as wallpaper.
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Heroic Landscape with Watering Place, Riders, and Obelisk
1744 · Woodcut
Melchisedech Blessing Abraham, from Opera Selectoria
1743 · Chiaroscuro woodcut in buff, light brown, dark brown, and dark gray on off-white laid paper
Saint Mark Saving a Slave from Torture, from Opera Selectiora
1740 · Chiaroscuro woodcut printed in buff, warm gray, brown, and dark brown on off-white paper
The Massacre of the Innocents, from Opera Selectiora
1739 · Chiaroscuro woodcut in buff, violet-gray, light brown and dark violet-brown on off-white laid paper
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- John Baptist Jackson
- Year
- 1815
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.3 × 63 cm (30 × 23 3/4 in.); Framed: 97.2 × 83.9 × 8.9 cm (38 1/4 × 33 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1815-522166
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified