John Wesley Jarvis

Place: South Shields

Born: 1781

Death: 1839

Biography:

John Wesley Jarvis (1780 or 1781 – January 14, 1839) was an American painter. John Wesley Jarvis (nephew of Methodist leader John Wesley), was born at South Shields, England. His father was an English mariner, who moved his family to the United States in the mid-1780s. The Jarvis family settled in Philadelphia there he spent his childhood and began...