Matthew Harris Jouett (American, Kentucky, 1788 to 1827)
Matthew Harris Jouett, who was born in what is now Mercer County, Kentucky, has long been regarded as the most noted portrait painter in the ante-bellum South. After studying at Transylvania University, he spent four months in 1816 studying with Gilbert Stuart in Boston. Much admired by his mentor, Jouett returned to the South where he painted 300 portraits, very few with a landscape.
Information courtesy of Skinner Inc., June 2009.