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Jean Baptiste Casmiere Breschard (John B. Breschard) was a circus owner and equestrian performer in the Circus of Pepin and Breschard. Frenchman Breschard reintroduced the circus clown to the United States in 1807. Mme. Breschard, wife of Jean Baptiste, was a premier equestrienne and is described in numerous sources as being one of the early businesswomen in the USA.〔Dexter, Elisabeth Anthony. ''Career Women of America, 1776-1840''. Francestown, NH: Marshall Jones Company, 1950.〕 Mme. Breschard is arguably the first nationally recognized professional sportswoman in the United States. Both are documented as performing in the United States between 1807 and 1817. Breschard is reported as performing in Puerto Rico; Havana, Cuba; and Haiti in 1820.〔The New York Columbian, New York, NY: 13 October 1820.〕〔L'Abeille haytienne. Pournal Politique et Littéraire 1819〕 Breschard's place and date of birth and death are unknown. == Gilbert Stuart portrait == In 1878 a portrait by Gilbert Stuart was identified by George Washington Riggs, (also known as ''"The President's Banker"''), a trustee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., as "Breschard, the Circus Rider", and as "Breschard" the painting was displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1880.〔Mason, George C. ''The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart''. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879.〕〔(Google Books ) ''The Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart''〕 The portrait currently resides at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., but is now identified by the NGA as being John Bill Ricketts, another circus performer. Stuart and Ricketts did not sail from Dublin to Philadelphia together as some have claimed.〔Howard, Hugh ''The Painter's Chair'', p174. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009〕 Owing to Stuart's aversion to being cooped up for weeks with a circus, he booked passage on another ship, the ''Draper'', even though its destination was a different American port. Peter Grain, a former member of the Circus of Pépin and Breschard, is cited in the NGA provenance for this painting as being the owner in the mid-19th century. After Grain, the portrait was owned by picture dealer Henry Barlow, who sold it to Riggs sometime before 1867. In that year, Henry T. Tuckerman's ''Book of the Artists: American Artist Life Comprising Biographical and Critical Sketches of American Arts'' listed the painting, sitter unidentified, as being in Riggs' collection.〔(National Gallery of Art ). John Bill Ricketts, 1795/1799 - provenance. Retrieved 28 September 2012.〕 In 1944 it was displayed at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, as "William Rickhart", and by 1947 the National Gallery of Art had changed the identification to "John Bill Ricketts".〔(National Gallery of Art ). John Bill Ricketts, 1795/1799 - exhibiton history. Retrieved 28 September 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean Baptiste Casmiere Breschard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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