John Quidor

NationalityAmerican
SkillsPainter
BornJanuary 26, 1801 Tappan, New York, USA
DiedDecember 14, 1881 (aged 80) Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Student ofJohn Wesley Jarvis

Paintings of John Quidor

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American painter John Quidor has depicted a famous scene from the short story collection The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. The story is about a girl who is sought by two men. The ill-hearted person doesn’t get the girl at the end and on the return to his hometown, he gets persuaded by a ghost of a headless horseman in the haunted jungle on the road. The painting above is the representation of the moment when the person sees the headless horseman for the first time, gets frightened by the sight and tries to pace away on his horse. The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane Analysis The physical size of the canvas is near to 3 x 2 feet. The large canvas allows […]

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