biography of John Waldo DURANT (c.1774-1832)

Birth place: St. Croix (West Indies)

Death place: Philadelphia, PA

Profession: Portrait painter

Comments: He appears to have been educated in Boston (Mass.) and painted a few portraits in Massachusetts and Maine. During the last few years of his life he was inspector of customs at Philadelphia.

Sources: G&W; Dunlap, History (1918), III, 297; Fielding; Phila. CD 1828-31; WPA (Mass.), Portraits Found in Mass., no. 2246.