John Neagle was a fashionable American painter, primarily of portraits, during the first half of the 19th century in Philadelphia.
John Neagle by Bass Otis, c. 1815
Gilbert Stuart; 1825, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Mathew Carey, 1825
John Kintzing Kane, 1828, Princeton University Art Museum
Bass Otis, was an early American artist, inventor, and portrait painter. He painted hundreds of portraits including many of the best known Americans of his day, and produced the first American lithograph in 1819.
Bass Otis self-portrait, 1860
Brandywine flour mills painted by Bass Otis about 1840
Portrait of Thomas Tuxtun, 1817.
Portrait of President William Henry Harrison, 1841