(April 5, 1716 - May 17, 1774) was a Swiss-born American painter, primarily of portraits. He was active mainly around Charleston, South Carolina, in which city he remained almost without competition for the bulk of his career.
Theus was born in the city of Chur, in the Swiss canton of Graubenden, and was the eldest child of Simeon and Anna Walser Thees. He was nineteen when he immigrated with his family to the Province of South Carolina, whose General Assembly had provided land grants and transport funds to encourage European Protestants to settle in the colony. Simeon Thes was given 250 acres (1.0 km2) of land along the Edisto River in what was then Orangeburgh Township,
Pintura Identificación:: 70908
Elizabeth Rothmahler new23/Jeremiah Theus-939368.jpg ca. 1757(1757)
Oil on canvas
75.8 x 63.4 cm (29.84 x 24.96 in)
Pintura Identificación:: 72310
Mrs. Thomas Lynch (Elizabeth Allston Lynch), by Swiss-American painter Jeremiah Theus. new23/Jeremiah Theus-634357.jpg Mrs. Thomas Lynch (Elizabeth Allston Lynch), by Swiss-American painter Jeremiah Theus. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of Reynolda House Museum, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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Pintura Identificación:: 72312
Portrait of Suzanna Moore Smyth new23/Jeremiah Theus-647355.jpg "Portrait of Suzanna Moore Smyth," oil on canvas, by Swiss-American artist Jeremiah Theus. Courtesy of the San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas.
Pintura Identificación:: 72629
Gabriel Manigault new24/Jeremiah Theus-458744.jpg "Gabriel Manigault," oil on canvas portrait of Gabriel Manigault of Charleston, South Carolina, by the Swiss-American artist Jeremiah Theus..
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Pintura Identificación:: 72630
Mrs. John Dart new24/Jeremiah Theus-736869.jpg "Mrs. John Dart," oil on canvas portrait by the Swiss-American artist Jeremiah Theus. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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