藝術家John Rilto PENNIMAN (1782-1841) 生平簡歷

出生地： Milford, MA

死亡地点： Baltimore, MD

职业： Portrait & ornamental painter, lithographer, teacher

教育： apprenticed c.1792, probably to ornamental painter

展出： Boston, 1819 (large glass painting depicting the fire at the Boston's Exchange Coffee House in 1818).

会员： Mass. Charitable Mechanics Assoc.; Mason, 1810-21

工作： BMFA; Christ Church, Boston; Worcester (MA) Art Mus.; Essex Inst., Salem, MA; NMAA

评论： In 1826, he was one of the first artists in America to produce a drawing on stone as a lithograph, for the Pendleton Lithographic Press in Boston (Bass Otis was the very first). A versatile artist, Penniman began his career as an ornamental painter at early age, and became one of the finest specialists in that field in America. At the same time, he also practicied portraiture and landscape painting. In 1805, he Married Susannah Bartlett in Boston, and became acquainted with Gilbert Stuart, whose influence is seen in his portraits. His earliest work includes a self-portrait (pvt. collection), of c.1796, and The Family Group," of 1798 (BMFA). In 1803, he opened a shop in the Roxbury section of Boston and continued his ornamental painting on clocks, frames, and mirrors. In 1819 he painted and exhibited a a 15-foot-square glass panel depicting the 1818 fire that had destroyed Boston's Exchange Coffee House. In 1826, he was working for Boston lithographers William S. and John B. Pendleton (see entries) as a designer and copyist. Debt and drinking problems put him in the Boston House of Correction at least twice, once in 1830. According to a fellow inmate (William J. Shelling, author of The Rattrap, 1837), Penniman agreed to serve as a draftsman on the frigate Independence from 1830-33. He is known to have lived for a time near Worcester, MA, and to have moved to Baltimore by 1837. He was the teacher of several early artists, including Alvan Fisher, Nathan Negus, Charles Bullard, and Charles Codman.

来源： G&W; Morgan, Gilbert Stuart and His Pupils, 33-34; Swan, "John Ritto Penniman"; Dunlap, History, II, 260 (erroneously states that Pennyman [sic] was already dead by 1833-34); Boston CD 1805-27. More recently, see Pierce and Slautterback, 147; and 300 Years of American Art, vol. 1, 94 (repro.)."