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John Gadsby Chapman

John Gadsby Chapman 1808-90, American painter, b. Alexandria, Va. Chapman is noted for his colored etchings of the Roman compagna and the American landscape. His historical painting The Baptism of Pocahontas is in the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

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Chapman, John

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Chapman, John (1821–94), publisher and editor (from 1851) of the Westminster Review.

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Wilson, John C(hapman)

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Wilson, John C[hapman] (1899–1961), producer and director. Born in New Jersey and educated at Yale, he spent many years as a stockbroker before his friendship with Noel Coward led him into the theatre. With Coward, the Lunts, and the Theatre Guild, he co‐produced a number of works, including Design for Living (1933) and Tonight at 8:30 (1936), sometimes as a silent partner. Embarking on his own, Wilson later produced such shows as Blithe Spirit (1941), Lovers and Friends (1943), Bloomer Girl (1944), O Mistress Mine (1946), Present Laughter (1946), and The Winslow Boy (1947). He directed many of his own productions as well as those of other producers, notably Kiss Me, Kate (1948) and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949).

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	The Baptism of Pocahontas.(John Rolfe) Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 1/1/2009
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	EMPIRE EXAMINED.(Unwind) Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/25/2009; 700+ words ; ...repose, while the upper classes are nonexistent. John Gadsby Chapman pays homage to the nobleness of leading an uncomplicated...canvas "Shepherd of the Campagna," 1872, by John Gadsby Chapman (1808-1889).
	The power of paintings. Magazine article from: Cobblestone; 2/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...inside held firm. Conrad Wise Chapman paid little attention to the danger...son of famous landscape artist John Gadsby Chapman, Conrad grew up in Europe, but...later were rendered in oil--Chapman produced 31 realistic paintings...
	Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American Narrative Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; 4/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...America," emphasizes the role that John Davis played in making the Pocahontas...Mexico. The fourth chapter, "John Gadsby Chapman's Baptism of Pocahontas," surveying...into Algonquian tribes. Earlier John Gould Fletcher advanced the exaggerated...
	Roots of art education practice. (Reviews).(Review) Magazine article from: Arts & Activities; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...account begins with the systematic initiation of drawing skills in American schools. She cites the influences of John Gadsby Chapman, Mary Ann Dwight, Walter Smith, Louis Prang and others. Just think, in 1880, a Prang art textbook included...
	David Hunter Strother: "One of the Best Draughtsmen the Country Possesses" Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...contains a biographical essay by John A. Cuthbert and catalog entries...in New York with Virginia artist John Gadsby Chapman and with Samuel F. B. Morse...capture and trial of abolitionist John Brown in Harpers Ferry. Strother...
	HERE & NOW Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/2/1995; 700+ words ; ...original engraving (which appeared in John Smith's 1624 "Generall Historie...Pocahontas," completed in 1840 by John Gadsby Chapman, and it hangs in the U.S. Capitol...directors. The best known of them is John Woo, who made a splash here with...
	The Baptism of Pocahontas.(John Rolfe) Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...s Capitol. (1) John Gadsby Chapman's mural in the...1843). In 1828 Chapman went to study in...his first patron, John Linton (c. 1745...in Alexandria at Gadsby Tavern, which was owned by Chapman's grandfather...
	A travelogue of American painters in Rome ; 19th-century artists portrayed both the glory and the end of an empire Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 8/19/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...tougher eyes. In an 1854 picture John Gadsby Chapman showed the Campagna as wasteland...salvaging and looting feels hazy. Chapman probably painted this picture...the scholars William Vance and John and Mary McGuigan in the catalog...
	Historic Old Town Academy to Get a New Life Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/2/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...Thomas Fairfax. Robert E. Lee and portrait painter John Gadsby Chapman learned their three R's inside the 23-by-30...association with George Washington is enough justification." John Hynan, a member of the Historic Alexandria Foundation...
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