John Peter DeLancey (1754-1828)

Datec. 1814

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsSight: 25 3/8 × 20 1/2 in. (64.5 × 52.1 cm)

Object numberN0147.1977

Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Dr. Henry S. F. Cooper

Photograph by Richard Walker

Label TextPortrait of John Peter DeLancey (1754-1828), father-in-law of James Fenimore Cooper. DeLancey was the scion of a successful colonial family whose fortune was lost during the Revolution as the family remained loyal to the British. John Peter's daughter, Susan Augusta, married James Fenimore Cooper in 1811 and the young couple commissioned the portrait a few years later. Jarvis was a leading portrait painter during the early 19th century. He began his career as an apprentice to a printmaker and later drew portraits and painted miniatures. Jarvis taught himself to paint portraits similar to Gilbert Stuart's painterly style but with tighter brushstrokes and a more detailed finish.
BibliographyKornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum, Vol. 2 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996), pg. 503-504.

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