Name John Haidt | Died 1780 | |
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John Valentine Haidt (1700–1780) was a German-born American painter and Moravian preacher in Pennsylvania.
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Life
Haidt was born in Danzig, Prussia (modern day Gdansk, Poland). He was educated at Berlin, and studied painting at Venice, Rome, Paris, and London.
He began his artistic career when he was forty-five, forty-six years old.
He immigrated to the United States in 1754. He was ordained a deacon of the Moravian Church, and evangelized.
He is known for his early dramatic paintings depicting Biblical ideas and his later portraits of Moravian church members and early leaders of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
He died on 18 January 1780, at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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