Blunt, John S. (1798-1835)

Name:

Blunt, John S. (1798-1835)

Other Names:

Blunt, John Samuel

Born:

03/17/1798

Birthplace:

Portsmouth, NH

Died:

08/25/1835

Death Location:

At sea, onboard "Ohio"

Residence:

Portsmouth, NH 1798-1816, 1821-1830
Boston, MA 1816-1821, 1830-1835

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Ornamental Painter
Artist

Father:

Blunt, Mark Sherburne

Mother:

Drown, Mary

Relations:

Partnership, Blunt (John S.) Codman (William P.), 1819

Spouse:

Married Esther P(eake) Colby (1801-1872), October 3, 1821, Boston, MA

Children:

Frances Mary, Born December 23, 1821
Angelica Kauffman, November 2, 1823
Michael Angelo, Born January 28, 1826, Portsmouth, NH
Charlotte Angelica, Born July 25, 1829
Mark Leonado, Born May 23, 1832, Boston, MA
Martha Washington, Born September 2, 1834, Boston, MA

Notes:

Nina Fletcher Little, "J. S. Blunt: New England Landscape Painter," Antiques, 54(September 1948)3, 172-173.

Robert C. Bishop, The Borden Limner and His Contemporaries. (Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1976), 12-17, 52-58.

Robert C. Bishop, "John Blunt: The Man, The Artist, and the Times," The Clarion, Spring 1980, 36-37.

Catherine H. Campbell, New Hampshire Scenery: A Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Artists of New Hampshire Mountain Landscapes. (Canaan, New Hampshire: Phoenix Publishing for the New Hampshire Historical Society, 1985), 14.

John Michael Vlach, Plain Painters: Making Sense of American Folk Art. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988, 28-32.

Deborah M. Child, "Coming of Age on the Picataqua: the Marine Paintings of John Samuel Blunt," Antiques and Fine Art, (August/September 2006), 180-185.

Deborah M. Child, The Sketchbooks of John Samuel Blunt. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Portsmouth Athenaeum, 2007.

Deborah M. Child, "John Samuel Blunt: An Artist's View of Portsmouth," in Richard M. Candee, Editor. Maritime Portsmouth: The Sawtelle Collection. (Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Portsmouth Marine Society, 2011), 67-69.

Advertisement, New-Hampshire Patriot, Concord, New Hampshire, October 4, 1819

Marriage Notice, Independent Chronicle Boston Patriot, Boston, Massachusetts, October 10, 1821

Obituary, New-Hampshire Gazette, September 15, 1835.