John Valentine Haidt [SEP] occupation
John Valentine Haidt
John Valentine Haidt (an anglicanization of Johann Valentin Haidt) (1700–1780) was a German-born American painter and Moravian preacher in Pennsylvania.
Life.
Haidt was born in Danzig, Prussia (modern day Gdańsk, Poland).
He was educated at Berlin, and studied painting at Venice, Rome, Paris, and London.
When he was 45 or 46 years old, Haidt set out on an artistic career. He immigrated to British North America in 1754. He was ordained
- Biography listing at Smithsonian American Art Museum
- The Painting Preacher: John Valentine Haidt by John F. Morman
- Entry at Dictionary of Art Historians