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Gansevoort Limner
( fl c. 1730–45). American painter. He was one of several portrait painters, known as the Patroon Painters, active during the first half of the 18th century in the Dutch-settled lands along the Hudson River from New York to Troy. He may have derived his compositions freely from British and Dutch mezzotints, but his style is strongly individualistic. The faces of his sitters are simplified and delicately rendered, while their figures are flat and geometrical, thinly painted in warm colours. His best-known portraits are Pau de Wandelaer (c. 1730; Albany, NY, Inst. Hist. & A.) and Deborah Glen (c. 1737; Williamsburg, VA, Rockefeller Flk A. Col.).
Part of the Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists family
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