All Jean Leon Gerome Ferris's oil paintings
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96770 Baigneuses Baigneuses oil on canvas, 62x46 cm cyf
72768 Betsy Ross Betsy Ross Title Betsy Ross 1777 Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
71575 Betsy Ross 1777 Betsy Ross 1777 Oil on canvas
75082 Birth of Pennsylvania Birth of Pennsylvania Artist Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863-1930) Title The Birth of Pennsylvania 1680 Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
73965 Building the Cradle of Liberty Building the Cradle of Liberty Building the Cradle of Liberty Oil on canvas cjr
75469 Building the Cradle of Liberty Building the Cradle of Liberty Title Building the Cradle of Liberty Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
73967 Captain Kidd in New York Harbor Captain Kidd in New York Harbor Captain Kidd in New York Harbor Oil on canvas cjr
75474 Captain Kidd in New York Harbor Captain Kidd in New York Harbor Title Captain Kidd in New York Harbor Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
73964 Franklin's Return to Philadelphia, 1785 Franklin's Return to Philadelphia, 1785 Franklin's Return to Philadelphia, 1785 Oil on canvas cjr
75468 Franklins Return to Philadelphia Franklins Return to Philadelphia Title Franklin's Return to Philadelphia, 1785 Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
75077 Landing of William Penn Landing of William Penn Title The Landing of William Penn Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
75079 Mayflower Compact Mayflower Compact Artist Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863-1930) Title The Mayflower Compact, 1620 Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
73404 The Birth of Pennsylvania 1680 The Birth of Pennsylvania 1680 Oil on canvas cjr
73966 The Fall of New Amsterdam The Fall of New Amsterdam The Fall of New Amsterdam Oil on canvas cjr
75472 The Fall of New Amsterdam The Fall of New Amsterdam Title The Fall of New Amsterdam Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
73552 The First Thanksgiving The First Thanksgiving ca. between 1912(1912) and 1915(1915) Oil on canvas cjr
73399 The Landing of William Penn The Landing of William Penn Oil on canvas cjr
73402 The Mayflower Compact, 1620 The Mayflower Compact, 1620 Oil on canvas cjr
74274 Washington's Inaugration at Philadelphia Washington's Inaugration at Philadelphia Oil on canvas cjr
75078 Writing the Declaration of Independence Writing the Declaration of Independence Title Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776 Date Medium Oil on canvas cyf
73401 Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776 Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776 Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776 Oil on canvas cjr
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
(August 18, 1863 - March 18, 1930) was an American painter best known for his series of 78 scenes from American history, entitled The Pageant of a Nation, the largest series of American historical paintings by a single artist. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Stephen James Ferris, a portrait painter and a devotee of Jean-L??on G??rôme (after whom he was named) and Mariano Fortuny.He grew up around art, having been trained by his father and having two acclaimed painters, Edward Moran and Thomas Moran, as uncles. Ferris enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1879 and trained further at the Acad??mie Julian beginning in 1883 under William-Adolphe Bouguereau.He also met his namesake G??rôme, who greatly influenced Ferris's decision to paint scenes from American history. As Ferris wrote in his unpublished autobiography, "[G??rôme's] axiom was that one would paint best that with which he is most familiar". However, initially his subjects were Orientalist in nature, that movement having been in vogue when he was young. Some of his material was original, some of it took after Fortuny, but he was skilled enough, despite never having had any experience with Asia. In 1882, he exhibited a painting entitled Feeding the Ibis, which was valued at $600. By 1895, Ferris had gained a reputation as a historical painter, and he embarked on his dream of creating a series of paintings that told a historical narrative. In 1898 he sold one of these, General Howe's Levee, 1777, but he later regretted it, realizing that such a series could not be complete if the separate paintings could not be kept together. As such, he never sold another one of those, but he did sell the reproduction rights to various publishing companies. This later would have the effect of greatly popularizing his work, as these companies made prints, postcards, calendars and blank-backed trade cards use in advertisements. Laminated cards of these works were still being sold as late as 1984. The Landing of William PennThe paintings showed idealized portrayals of famous moments from American history, but were often historically inaccurate. The Landing of William Penn, for example, shows Penn being greeted at New Castle by American Indians who are clothed in the tradition of tribes from the Great Plains. In The First Thanksgiving 1621, the black outfits the Pilgrims are shown wearing are wrong, and the Wampanoag did not wear feathered war bonnets, nor would they have been sitting on the ground. The complete series was shown at Independence Hall in Philadelphia from 1913 to 1930, then moved next door to Congress Hall. In later years it was shown in a number of locations, including the Smithsonian Institution, before being returned to the Ferris family. . Related Artists to : | Sir Godfrey Kneller | ASPERTINI, Amico | Willem Wissing | STUBBS, George | Maliavin, Philip |