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Biography: Quidor
(b Tappan, NY, 26 Jan 1801; d Jersey City, NJ, 13 Dec 1881). American painter. As a child Quidor moved with his family to New York, where he studied painting briefly with John Wesley Jarvis. His early work (1823–8) was tentative, judging from the few known examples, and he apparently made his living by painting banners and fire-engine backs, none of which has survived. In 1828 he exhibited at the National Academy of Design a picture that established his mature style, Ichabod Crane Pursued by the Headless Horseman (New Haven, CT, Yale U. A.G.). The subject was from Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book , and Quidor’s interpretation, with its fantasy, baroque inventiveness and romantic exaggeration, struck a new note in American genre painting, which until then had been consistently realistic.
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