biography of Peter COPMANN (1794-1850)

Birth place: Denmark

Death place: Basseterre, Guadeloupe

Addresses: Brooklyn, active 1834; Charleston, SC, 1834-35; New Orleans, 1837; Louisville, KY, 1848

Profession: Portrait and landscape painter in oils and pastels

Studied: l'Académie, 1818

Exhibited: l'Académie, 1819-20; Copenhagen in 1832; NAD,1834, listed as as Pierce Chopmann

Comments: Of Danish origin, Copmann worked in Copenhagen and as an itinerant portrait and landscape painter in Hamburg and Dresden, Germany (1821). He immigrated to the U.S. ca.1834. He was also the inventor of a fixative for pastel pictures. Also known as Pierce Copmann. (Alternate spelling: Chopmann)

Sources: G&W; Rutledge, Artists in the Life of Charleston, 154, 177; Cowdrey, NAD; New Orleans CD 1837 (cited by Delgado-WPA); Louisville CD 1848; Charleston (S.C.) CD 1835; Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists, 86.