John Christian Rauschner Explained

John Christian Rauschner (born c. 1760) was a German artist who specialized in portraits made of wax.[1] He worked for some time in the United States, travelling to Boston,[2] [3] New York City,[4] Philadelphia[5] and elsewhere. Examples of Rauschner's artwork are in the Albany Institute of History & Art;[6] American Antiquarian Society;[7] Bostonian Society; Fruitlands Museum;[8] Historic New England; Massachusetts Historical Society; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;[9] New York Historical Society;[10] Peabody Essex Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; West Point Museum; the White House, Washington DC; and Winterthur Museum.[11]

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Portraits by Rauschner

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. His name appears in contemporary and later sources in variety of spellings, presumably all referring to the same artist: John Christian Rauchner, Johann Christian Rauschner, John C. Rauschner, J.C. Rauschner; John Christopher Rauschner, Johann Christoph Rauschner.
  2. "John C. Rauschner, artist in wax, 2 Winter Street." Boston Directory. 1807, 1810
  3. His son, portrait artist Henry Rauschner, had a "shop" in Boston ca.1809-1810. Henry died in 1812 while serving in the U.S. Army in South Carolina. cf. "Henry Rauschner, artist in wax, 3 Winter Street;" Boston Directory 1809. Independent Chronicle (Boston) 03-12-1810. "Deaths," The Pilot (Boston), Nov. 27, 1812
  4. "Nature imitated. John Christopher Rauschner, artist. Member of the Imperial Academy of Sculpture at Vienna." Commercial Advertiser (NY), 01-02-1799
  5. Philadelphia Directory. 1811
  6. http://americanhistory.si.edu/documentsgallery/exhibitions/dewitt_4.html Smithsonian
  7. http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Inventories/Portraits/bios/114.pdf American Antiquarian Society
  8. http://www.fruitlands.org/gallery-collection?page=20 Fruitlands Museum
  9. http://www.mfa.org/search/collections?keyword=rauschner MFA Boston
  10. http://emuseum.nyhistory.org:8080/emuseum/ NY Historical Society
  11. Anita Schorsch. "A Key to the Kingdom: The Iconography of a Mourning Picture." Winterthur Portfolio, Spring, 1979, vol.14, no.1