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Jeremiah Theus
(April 5, 1716 - May 17, 1774) was a Swiss-born American painter, primarily of portraits. He was active mainly around Charleston, South Carolina, in which city he remained almost without competition for the bulk of his career.
Theus was born in the city of Chur, in the Swiss canton of Graubenden, and was the eldest child of Simeon and Anna Walser Thees. He was nineteen when he immigrated with his family to the Province of South Carolina, whose General Assembly had provided land grants and transport funds to encourage European Protestants to settle in the colony. Simeon Thes was given 250 acres (1.0 km2) of land along the Edisto River in what was then Orangeburgh Township,
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Painting ID:: 72655
Lt. Colonel Barnard Elliott
"Lt. Colonel Barnard Elliott," by Swiss-American painter Jeremiah Theus, oil-on canvas. Courtesy of the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina.
Date circa 1740
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Painting ID:: 73928
Elizabeth Allston Lynch
Date 1755
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Painting ID:: 73929
Portrait of Suzanna Moore Smyth
Date 1755
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Painting ID:: 74397
Gabriel Manigault
Gabriel Manigault," oil on canvas portrait of Gabriel Manigault of Charleston, South Carolina, by the Swiss-American artist Jeremiah Theus.
Date 1757
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Painting ID:: 74398
Mrs John Dart
Mrs. John Dart," oil on canvas portrait by the Swiss-American artist Jeremiah Theus. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Date circa 1772-1774
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Jeremiah Theus
(April 5, 1716 - May 17, 1774) was a Swiss-born American painter, primarily of portraits. He was active mainly around Charleston, South Carolina, in which city he remained almost without competition for the bulk of his career.
Theus was born in the city of Chur, in the Swiss canton of Graubenden, and was the eldest child of Simeon and Anna Walser Thees. He was nineteen when he immigrated with his family to the Province of South Carolina, whose General Assembly had provided land grants and transport funds to encourage European Protestants to settle in the colony. Simeon Thes was given 250 acres (1.0 km2) of land along the Edisto River in what was then Orangeburgh Township,
. Related Artists to Jeremiah Theus: | Modest Urgell | Jan van Haensbergen | Lhermitte, Leon | Georg Weissmann | John Anster Fitzgerald |
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