The Old Print Shop

Matthew Harris Jouett

1788-1827

Born in Kentucky. Served in the U.S. Army during the wart of 1812. After the war, he studied portraiture and went to Boston to study with Gilbert Stuart in 1816. Jouett painted in New Orleans, Natchez, Mississippi, and Kentucky. He was commissioned by the Kentucky legislature to paint a portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette.

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