John Christian Rauschner (born 1760) was a German artist who specialized in portraits made of wax.[1] He worked for some time in the United States, travelling to Boston,[2][3] New York City,[4] Philadelphia[5][6] and elsewhere.[7] Examples of Rauschner's artwork are in the Albany Institute of History & Art;[8] American Antiquarian Society;[9] Bostonian Society; Fruitlands Museum;[10] Historic New England; Massachusetts Historical Society; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;[11] New York Historical Society;[12] Peabody Essex Museum;[13][14] Philadelphia Museum of Art; West Point Museum; the White House, Washington DC; and Winterthur Museum.[15]