# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-hesselius
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:26:08.597Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-hesselius"
name: "John Hesselius"
slug: "john-hesselius"
description: "John Hesselius was an American portrait painter who worked mostly in Virginia and Maryland. He was the son of the Swedish-born portraitist Gustavus Hesselius. He painted the portraits of many wealthy politicians and planters in Colonial Maryland, making him a successful and wealthy individual; at his death in 1778 he left a substantial estate of land and slaves."
tagline: "American artist (1728-1778)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/John_Hesselius_-_Rev._Richard_Brown_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/330px-John_Hesselius_-_Rev._Richard_Brown_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1728"
deathDate: "1778-04-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.43
  momentum:             6.045662100456621
  historical:           5.674586666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hesselius"
    title: "John Hesselius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "جون هسيليوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hesselius"
    title: "John Hesselius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hesselius"
    title: "John Hesselius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%9F_%D7%94%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A1"
    title: "ג'ון הסליוס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hesselius"
    title: "John Hesselius"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5804007"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump