The Gansevoort Limner (active 1730- 1745)

• Was an American painter.
• Generally untrained and itinerant, limners were a class of artists who helped shape the image of colonial Americans, securing the social status of their middle-class sitters in portraits that convey an air of refinement.
• “The Gansevoort Limner” designates an unidentified artist who was active in the US between 1730 and 1745 (possibly Pieter Vanderlyn) and depicted, among others, the Gansevoorts, a prominent Dutch American family.
• Typically set within domestic interiors, this artist’s flatly painted, three-quarter-length likenesses represent his prospering sitters with a naturalism that is loosely indebted to seventeenth-century Dutch portraiture.
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