John Lee Douglas Mathies ,Gentleman, Oil on Canvas J· L·D· Mathies，Artist. Best Known for his portraits of the Seneca chief Red Jacket and the Quaker mystic Jemima Wilkinson, The Red Jacket Price realisted was USD $845,000 at 21 may 2015 in Christie`s New York. He Born into a family of immigrants from Scotland, he grew up in Coila, a Scottish farming settlement near the village of Cambridge in Washington County, New York. After the deaths of his parents in 1795, J.L.D. came to abandon the austere Presbyterianism of his childhood to become a free-thinker, a choice reflected in his pursuit of unconventional subjects to paint. He was particularly inspired by the Seneca Indians, and his work is distinguished from other regional artists of the period by its sensitivity and technical refinement. In 1815 he opened an art school in Canandaiuga, New York, and after it proved unsuccessful, he moved to Rochester in 1823. Although he painted landscapes of western New York and the falls at Niagara, popular subjects he also found personally compelling, he was forced to subsidize his art career as the proprietor of the Clinton House Hotel, among other business ventures, which at one point included a brief collaboration in an art gallery with his nephew and rising star in the art world, when he died at age 54 in 1834. This gentlman portrait painting is collected by senior collector and artist in toronto many years John Lee Douglas Mathies 是美国艺术家，他最著名的作品是《the Seneca chief Red Jacket》和 《 the Quaker mystic Jemima Wilkinson》肖像画 ,其中这幅《the Seneca chief Red Jacket》作品于2015.5.21在纽约佳士得拍卖会上以84.5万美元成交。 J·L·D·Mathies出生在一个来自苏格兰的移民家庭，在Coila小镇上长大，Coila是位于纽约华盛顿县剑桥村附件的苏格兰农业定居点，1795年他父母去世后，就放弃了童年的长老会信仰，成为一个自由思想家，这一选择也反映在了他对绘画非传统主题的毕生追求上。他特别受到塞内加印第安人的启发，他的作品以其敏感性和技术精炼而有别于当时的其他地方艺术家。1815年，他在纽约的Canandaluga开了一所艺术学校，在学校经营失败后，1823年他搬到了罗切斯特居住，之后他就创作了一些纽约西部和尼亚加拉瀑布风景画，以适应当时比较受市场欢迎的主题。后来他不得不用经营一家旅店的收入贴补他的艺术事业，并通过艺术合作资助了之后成为艺术新星的侄子的成长。1834年不幸去世，享年54岁。 John Lee Douglas Mathies这幅作品被加拿大多伦多一位资深艺术家暨收藏家收藏多年。