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]
Images
- Portraits by Rauschner
Further reading
- The Spectator (NY); Date: 12-14-1803. [Anecdote about Mr. Rauschner and his waxworks].
- Ethel Stanwood Bolton, American Wax Portraits, 3rd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1929)
- "Wax profiles of Abraham Varick and others by J.C. Rauschner." Antiques, Vol. 30, September 1936, pp. 100–102.
- H.E. Keyes. "More Waxes by Rauschner." Antiques, Vol. 31, April 1937, pp. 186–187.
Notes and References
- 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.
- "John C. Rauschner, artist in wax, 2 Winter Street." Boston Directory. 1807, 1810
- 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
- "Nature imitated. John Christopher Rauschner, artist. Member of the Imperial Academy of Sculpture at Vienna." Commercial Advertiser (NY), 01-02-1799
- Philadelphia Directory. 1811
- http://americanhistory.si.edu/documentsgallery/exhibitions/dewitt_4.html Smithsonian
- http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Inventories/Portraits/bios/114.pdf American Antiquarian Society
- http://www.fruitlands.org/gallery-collection?page=20 Fruitlands Museum
- http://www.mfa.org/search/collections?keyword=rauschner MFA Boston
- http://emuseum.nyhistory.org:8080/emuseum/ NY Historical Society
- Anita Schorsch. "A Key to the Kingdom: The Iconography of a Mourning Picture." Winterthur Portfolio, Spring, 1979, vol.14, no.1