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OriginalNotes: "The Temperance Pledge" (Accessed July 21, 2021 : http://collection.imamuseum.org/artwork/41697/)
Painting titled The Temperance Pledge by john Gibson Dunn (American, about 1820-1858). Dunn, son of a state treasurer, entered the Indianapolis studio of Jacob Cox in 1840. After short period of art training, he took up medicine and received degree froma college in Cincinnati. Was assistaqnt surgeon in Mexican War. Listed among the painters of Indianapolis in the spring of 1851. He and Jacob Cox and a studio together in Cincinnati. "Dunn, whose early death Jacob Cox attributed to excessive drinking ironicall chose the Temperance Pledge as the subject for this painting." [Source: Mary Q. Burnet. Art and Artists of Indiana.]

ArtSmart: Indiana (accessed July 21, 2021 : http://artsmartindiana.org/artwork/dunn-john-gibson-temperance-pledge-1851/
Son of George H. Dunn. Studied with Jacob Cox, went to Cincinnati in 1842 with Cox to open a studio. Cox returned to Indianapolis in 1843. Dunn later received medical degree from a college in Cincinnati. Before he started a practice, he began service in the Mexican War as assistant surgeon in Company K, 3rd Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. Then spent few years painting in Indianapolis. By 1851 he was living in Lawrenceburg, diving his time among medicine, mechanical inventions, painting, and poetry. He went to Louisiana after 1855 and died in New Orleans. Cox described Dunn as "a genius with more ill-jointed, badly-directed talent than any man I ever saw. His ideas on color were admirable -- exquisite; his invention was wonderful, but he never carried a picture to completion. He was somewhat of a poet, too, but wild and erratic to the last degree: His death, I fear, was the result of dissipation, as he was given to terrible sprees."

Coggeshall, "The Poets and Poetry of the West,"p. 537
JOHN GIBSON DUNN was born in the town of Lawrenceburgh, Indiana, about the year 1826, and he died, in New Orleans, in the spring of 1858. He was the oldest son of George H. Dunn, who for many years occupied high official station in the State of Indiana.John G. Dunn was educated at College Hill, near Cincinnati, and at South Hanover, Indiana. He studied medicine, and received the degree of M.D., at Cincinnati. Soon after completing his course of study, he accepted the appointment of assistant surgeon to the Third Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, in the Mexican war. He discharged his duties in that capacity with distinguished ability, and, at the close of the war, was appointed assistant surgeon in the regular service of. the United States army. This appointment he declined, and commenced the practice of medicine in his native town. Besides being a physician of rare attainments for one so young, Mr. Dunn was an artist as well as a poet. In his professional labors, and in his devotion to the kindred arts of poetry and painting, he displayed eminent abilities for, and high appreciation of, science and art. If he had been content with any one line of life-had his genius been steadily required to flow in one channel, or confined to a single aim, he would have accomplished memorable works; but, like many men of uncommon natural gifts, he could not permanently direct his energies in any particular pursuit. He spent several years in New Orleans, and, while there, was a contributor to the Delta. He wrote his earliest poems for the Register and the Independent Press-papers published in his native town. His poems have never been collected. He was careless of their fate. The accompanying pieces were found with difficulty: others of equal or superior merit were produced by him.



1851 - Daily State Sentinal (Indianapolis, Indiana), November 3, 1851
Married. On the 22d ult., in Hamilton co., Ohio, by Rev. W. W. Hibben, Dr. John G. Dunn, of this City, to Miss Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Wm. P. Sweet, of Dearborn county, Ind. - Press' Lawrenceburgh.

1852 - Indiana American (Brookville, Indiana), January 23, 1852
"Imitation of Marble and Granite." The Lawrenceburgh Press states that Dr. J. G. Dunn, of that city, had discovered a chemical combination by which he can charge the surface of any kind of stone or brick so as to represent the most beautiful and substantial marble or granite. [longer article about possible uses]

1853 - Indiana American (Brookville, Indiana), April 29, 1853
The Lawrenceburg Press sold by O. B. Torbet to John G. Dunn. "The latter, we believe is a son of Geo. H. Dunn. He turned Democrat the week before the Presidential election, and is now the organ, and exponent of the Democratic principles of Dearborn Co. Mr. Dunn is a poet -- or at least, like all of that class -- he thinks he is. -- We can't say.

1855 - Richmond Palladium Weekly (Richmond, Indiana), May 24, 1855
List of Premiums and Regulations for the Fourth Annual Indiana State Fair to be held at Indianapolis on October 17-19, 1855. Class O, No. 2 Paintingas and Drawings [includes Daguerreotypes] Committee includes Dr. John G. Dunn of Dearborn County [2 of the others were Jacob Cox and George Winter]

1857 - Greencastle Banner (Greencastle, Indiana), July 8, 1857
Dr. John G. Dunn, son of the Hon. George G. Dunn, of Indiana, died in New Orleans on the 9th inst. Dr. Dunn was a man of more than ordinary ability. The New Albany Tribune says: 'As a poet, as a printer, as a physician, or as a man of science, he could have acquired a distinguished name in the world, if he had not wrecked his brilliant prospects in the 'flowing bowl.' And yet, strange to say, no man has ever written more strongly against the use of intoxicating liquors than Dr. Dunn. His poem, 'French John,' excels the bitterest denunciation of the traffic that we have ever read. His pencil has also been used in the same cause, when he could shake off for a time the shackles that bound him. These is now, in a public hall in Indianapolis one of these pictures, in which is represented a woman trying to prevail upon her husband, pen in hand, to sign the pledge. On the other side appears his Satanic majesty, tempting the poor fellow with a mint julep."

1857 - [NOTE: Lawrenceburg newspaper: recheck]
Dr. John G. Dunn, a son of the late Geo. H. Dunn, of Lawrenceburgh, died on the 9th inst in New Orleans, whither he had gone for the benefit of his health. Dr. Dunn had gained an enviable reputation as a poet -- some of his pieces having been extensively circulated. He was also a skillful physician, a painter, an inventor, and a scholar. His age was about 34. He leaves a wife and one child to mourn his early death.
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OriginalSource: Crawfordsville Review (Crawfordsville, Indiana), March 21, 1857, p. 2
Dr. John G. Dunn, of Lawrenceburg, a poet, a painter, a physician, and a kind of universal genius, has invented an improvement of the ambrotype, which he styles "the scenaetype." It is said that under this improvement a picture is produced of extraordinary finish, combining all the accuracy of likeness produced by camera, with the softness, distance, and beautiful hues of the landscape. The image start out like magic, and it seems as though a person could walk in behind it and travel off for miles.
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