Artist

John Christian Rauschner

Portrait of John Christian Rauschner
Portrait of John Christian Rauschner

American, b. 1760

John Christian Rauschner is an American Biedermeier artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art.

John Christian Rauschner (born c. 1760) was a German artist who specialized in portraits made of wax. He worked for some time in the United States, travelling to Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and elsewhere. Examples of Rauschner's artwork are in the Albany Institute of History & Art; American Antiquarian Society; Bostonian Society; Fruitlands Museum; Historic New England; Massachusetts Historical Society; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; New York Historical Society; Peabody Essex Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; West Point Museum; the White House, Washington DC; and Winterthur Museum.

Works by John Christian Rauschner

Collections represented

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