John Valentine Haidt

John Valentine Haidt (an anglicanization of Johann Valentin Haidt) (1700–1780) was a German-born American painter and Moravian preacher in Pennsylvania.

Haidt was born in Danzig, Prussia (modern day Gdańsk, Poland).

[1] He was educated at Berlin, and studied painting at Venice, Rome, Paris, and London.

[3] 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.

[2] Works preserved at the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (partial list):

Young Moravian Girl c. 1755–60, oil