Guess the Artist

Your clues this week are:

• The artist was an American, but wasn't born in the United States of America.
• A prolific painter and contributor to the gene pool, the artist created over 1,000 portraits and 16 offspring -- 11 of whom survived to adulthood.
• Besides art, our artist was also proficient in the areas of militia captain, saddler, taxidermist, political radical, watch maker, carpenter, legislative representative, silversmith, abolitionist, optometrist, upholsterer, museum founder, naturalist, sign painter, dentist, and spouse (by virtue of having married three times).

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• The sitter in this portrait was elected to both houses of Congress, served as the Secretary of State, was the first person to lie in state in the United States Capitol, and, perhaps most importantly, introduced the mint julep to Washington, D.C.

Please email me your guesses over the coming week. I'll post the winner and correct answer with next week's guessing game. Good luck!

Last Week's Answer:

I was happy that Alain was the first to respond correctly to the clues last week. He knew that the artist was Melchor Perez de Holguin (Bolivian, ca. 1665-after 1732) and this painting, Saint Michael Archangel (1708), is supposed to show the War in Heaven. (I still think it would have been helpful if Holguin had painted ... oh, I don't know ... adult-sized legs on the sword-wielding Michael, since he is battting Satan, who is super powerful and probably fights dirty, but that's just me.) Bravo to you and your persistence, Alain!

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