John Valentine Haidt


John Valentine Haidt was a German-born American painter and Moravian preacher in Pennsylvania.

Life

Haidt was born in Danzig, Prussia.
He was educated at Berlin, and studied painting at Venice, Rome, Paris, and London.
When he was 45 or 46 years old, Haidt set out on an artistic career. He immigrated to British North America in 1754. He was ordained a deacon of the Moravian Church, and evangelized.
Haidt is known for his early dramatic paintings depicting Biblical ideas, and his later portraits of Moravian church members and early leaders of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He died on 18 January 1780, at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Paintings

Works preserved at the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania :