John Christian Rauschner

John Christian Rauschner (born c. 1760) was a German artist who specialized in portraits made of wax. He worked for some time in the United States, travelling to Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and elsewhere. Examples of Rauschner's artwork are in the Albany Institute of History & Art; American Antiquarian Society; Bostonian Society; Fruitlands Museum; Historic New England; Massachusetts Historical Society; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; New York Historical Society; Peabody Essex Museum; Philadelphia Museum of Art; West Point Museum; the White House, Washington DC; and Winterthur Museum.

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• The Spectator (NY); Date: 12-14-1803. [Anecdote about Mr. Rauschner and his waxworks].
• Ethel Stanwood Bolton, American Wax Portraits, 3rd ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1929)
• "Wax profiles of Abraham Varick and others by J.C. Rauschner." Antiques, Vol. 30, September 1936, pp. 100–102.
• H.E. Keyes. "More Waxes by Rauschner." Antiques, Vol. 31, April 1937, pp. 186–187.