biography
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Hesselius, Gustavus
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| male
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| lived:
| (1682–1755)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Falun, Sweden. He emigrated to an American colony on the Delaware R (1711), and was an important religious and secular painter. His sympathetic and dignified portraits of American Indians, such as ‘Chief Lapowinska’ (1735) and ‘Chief Tishcohan’ (1735), have ensured his reputation. |
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