Biografie von Horace ROCKWELL (1811-1877)

Birth place: possibly in Philadelphia

Death place: Roanoke, IN

Addresses: Philadelphia, as of 1835; settled in Fort Wayne, IN c. 1836; later moved to Roanoke, IN

Profession: Portrait painter

Exhibited: Artists Fund Soc., 1835

Work: The Newark Mus.

Comments: Provincial but not primitive portraitist; painted several major multifigured family groups. Also painted scriptural pictures and experimented with a flying machine.

Sources: G&W; Peat, Pioneer Painters of Indiana, 109-11, 237; Rutledge, PA; Antiques (Nov. 1950), 383; Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 2: 255 (with repro.).