Jesse Talbot was an American landscape painter and a friend of the poet Walt Whitman.
11 Facts About Jesse Talbot
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Jesse Talbot's work was often favorably compared to that of Thomas Cole and other leaders of the Hudson River School of American landscape painters.
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Jesse Talbot developed a friendship with Walt Whitman in the 1850s.
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Jesse Talbot was born April 1,1805, in Dighton, Massachusetts, the youngest child of Josiah Talbot and Lydia Talbot.
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Jesse Talbot became involved with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
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Jesse Talbot's earliest known extant work is a portrait frontispiece for a biography printed by the American Tract Society in 1840.
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Jesse Talbot became an associate member of the National Academy in 1845.
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In 1844 Jesse Talbot moved to Paterson, New Jersey, on the falls of the Passaic River.
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Jesse Talbot's 1845 painting of the falls is in the collection of the New Jersey Historical Society.
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Jesse Talbot's 1847 painting Christian at the Cross, based on John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, was exhibited at both venues in that year and received critical acclaim from the New York press.
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However, as the decade wore on, Jesse Talbot participated in fewer public exhibitions, apparently suffering a career setback with the 1852 dissolution of the American Art-Union.