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Frederick Kemmelmeyer (c.1760-c.1821)
Medium/Discipline: Painting, Works on Paper
Birthplace: Germany
Maryland Affiliation: Active while in residence
Prominent Theme: Historical Subjects; Military Subjects; Portraits; Religious Subjects
Active Dates and Place: 1788-1803 Baltimore, Maryland; 1803-? Alexandria, VA and Georgetown in Washington, DC and throughout Western Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia
Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: White
Biography: Frederick Kemmelmayer worked in Baltimore as a sign painter and miniaturist until 1803 and later moved to Western Maryland working from Chambersburg to Hagerstown and into the Upper Shenandoah region. The artist is known for his paintings of George Washingon reviewing the Whiskey Rebellion riots of 1794. He completed various portraits using pastels between the years 1805 and 1816.
Art-related Employment: drawing school director; portrait miniature painter; sign painter; transparency painter for celebrations and military insignia for regiments; cornice decorator of beds and window; mirror and picture frame gilder
Selected References: Dean, Mary A. [et al.] 350 Years of Art & Architecture in Maryland (College Park : Art Gallery, and Gallery of the School of Architecture, University of Maryland), 1984.
Woods, Jean. Celebrating 350 Years: Nineteenth-Century Maryland Artists. (Hagerstown: Washington County Museum of Fine Arts exhibition April 1-29), 1984.
Maryland Institutions Holding Artworks: Baltimore Museum of Art (prints); Maryland Historical Society
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