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John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder, by Gustav Anton von Senckendorff, circa 1822-23.
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Senckendorff painted Heckewelder in the simple dress of the Moravian missionaries, who were known as Blackcoats among the western Delaware.

Credit: American Philosophical Society

Gustav Anton von Senckendorff painted this portrait of John Heckewelder shortly before the elderly missionary's death in 1823. Heckewelder appears in the simple dress of the Moravian missionaries, who were known as Blackcoats among the western Delaware.

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