John Durand

Doctor Hibberd
After John Durand. 1760. Oil on linen. 40 by 32 inches. Private collection, Berwyn, Pennsylvania.

John Durand (active 1765–1782) was a colonial American portraitist. With John Mare, Abraham Delanoy and Lawrence Kilburn, he was one of a number of portraitists living and working in New York City during the 1760s. His approach to painting was linear and decorative, and suggests training as a decorative painter. Like many other painters of the era he saw no need to restrict himself to representational painting; a 1770 advertisement from The Virginia Gazette reveals that he would "paint, gild, and varnish wheel carriages; and put coats of arms, or ciphers upon them."