Justus Engelhardt Kühn (unknown-c1717) was a portrait painter active in colonial Maryland in the early part of the eighteenth century. He was the earliest professional artist to work in the Middle Atlantic colonies. A number of his portraits are held in the collection of the

Maryland Historical Society The Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC), formerly the Maryland Historical Society (MdHS), . founded on March 1, 1844, is the oldest cultural institution in the U.S. state of Maryland. The organization "collects, preserves, and inte ...

Early life

Kuhn was a Protestant, of German origin. Little is known of his early life.

Career

Kuhn was active in the early 1700s and painted a number of local dignitaries in Maryland including Henry Darnall III, Charles Carroll of Annapolis and Eleanor Darnall Carroll. Kuhn applied for naturalization at

Annapolis Annapolis ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Maryland and the county seat of, and only incorporated city in, Anne Arundel County. Situated on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River, south of Baltimore and about east o ...

in 1708. He became the churchwarden at St. Ann's church at Annapolis in 1717. He died six months later.Kuhn at dekluizenaar.mimesis.nl
Retrieved 22 August 2018

Gallery

File:J E Kühn - Henry Darnall III.jpg, Henry Darnall III, as a child, c.1712 File:Charles Carroll of Annapolis enfant.jpg, Charles Carroll of Annapolis as a child, c.1712 File:Eleonor Darnhall by Justus Engelhardt Kühn.jpg, Portrait of Eleanor Darnall as a child, c.1710

Notes

References

* Roarke, Elizabeth
''Artists of Colonial America''
Retrieved 16 August 2018

External links

Kuhn and MDHS.org
Retrieved 16 August 2018 18th-century American painters 18th-century American male artists American male painters American people of German descent Painters from Maryland German emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies Year of birth unknown 1717 deaths {{US-painter-stub