Gabriel Manigault
Jeremiah Theus
1757
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 62.2 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Fletcher Fund, 1928
Accession Number
28.126.1
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
Jeremiah Theus · 1716–1774
Jeremiah Theus (1716–1774) was a Swiss-born American portrait painter who became the leading artist in colonial Charleston, South Carolina. Born on April 5, 1716, in Chur, Switzerland, as the eldest child of Simeon and Anna Walser Theüs, he immigrated with his family in 1735 at age nineteen. The family settled in Orangeburgh Township under colonial land grants encouraging Protestant settlement. Th...