Artist

John Lewis Krimmel|Pavel Petrovich Svinin

Portrait of John Lewis Krimmel|Pavel Petrovich Svinin

John Lewis Krimmel|Pavel Petrovich Svinin is a Romanticism painter. 5 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them watercolors.

When John Lewis Krimmel wasn’t painting Philadelphia’s daily life, he sketched the city’s odd corners—like a rowdy inn or soldiers drilling in front of a bank. He slipped into crowds with a sketchbook, catching people mid-laugh or mid-work before they noticed him. His watercolors feel like freeze-frames of a city inventing itself. Hunt down *Merrymaking at a Wayside Inn*—it’s where a dog steals a sausage and nobody cares.

Works by John Lewis Krimmel|Pavel Petrovich Svinin

Collections represented

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