The "Seven Accounts of the First Vision

First Vision painted by Michael Bedard & Seven account of the First Vision by Joseph Smith and others who  new him. poster 18 x 24   $24.95 www.bedardfine art.com

Crop of the seven accounts First Vision of the Restoration poster

Crop  of the Seven accounts First Vision of the Restorationposter

The "Seven Accounts of the First Vision of the Restoration, by Joseph Smith and others who knew him" poster, provides  seven different accounts starting in 1832 and ending in 1844.

1. 1832 account  by Frederick G. Williams & Joseph Smith Jr.
2. 1835 account   "   Warren A. Cowdery.
3. 1838 account   "   Joseph Smith History: Vol. II : 10-20
4. 1842 account   "  Orson Hyde
5. 1842 account   "  Wentworth letter
6. 1843 account   "   Non- Mormon newspaper
7. 1844 account   "  German immigrant, Alexander Neibaur testimony

Each one provides a different paradigm that adds to our understanding of what took place when Joseph, a fourteen year old boy, sought out the Lord in his quest to find out which of all the religious sects was the correct one, if any, of his day. 

Multiple accounts make for a sure foundation of truth. All  court cases prefer  to have more witnesses than one alone. Multiple stories, like witnesses in court, provide root, trunk and branch. Thus we see the whole tree at once. What a great blessing to the sincere truth seeker!

An example of the advantage of multiple accounts can be found  in the four Gospels 0f the New Testament. Each gospel writer told the same story but left out, or added parts, which provided a deeper view of the gospel of Jesus Christ and His mission, and the saving principles and ordinances.

1. Mathew
2. Mark
3. Luke
4. John

In addition, there are the stories of the Tree of Life found in the Book of Mormon. Put them all together and we are able to fathom Lehi's vision of the tree of life, and all its ramifications for those seeking the paths of righteousness or wickedness. 

1. 1 Nephi 8:22-37 Lehi's vision of the Tree of Life.  Book of Mormon
2. 1 Nephi 11: 1-36  Nephi's vision of  the Tree of Life.  Book of Mormon
3. 1 Nephi 15: 21-36 Nephi's interpretation of the Tree of Life to his brothers. Book of Mormon

New painting of Christ in the works commissioned by Mitch Leavitt , " A New heart will I give you "

Ezekiel 36: 26-27

The last days, all the house of Israel will be gathered to their own lands—The Lord will give them a new heart and a new spirit—They will have His gospel law.

26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

 Mitch requested a 22.5 in. by  22.5 inches  

painting in progress

Six Nations -A Remnant of the House of Israel (Group portrait depiction of 85 of Six Nations Chiefs)

Michael Bedard’s new project underway:

 - SIX NATIONS CHIEFS -

A REMNANT of THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL 

BELOW IS A PHOTOGRAPHIC SKETCH  WHICH I AM CREATING TO USE AS A REFERENCE FOR THE PAINTING NOW IN PROGRESS. 

WHEN COMPLETED, ALL 85 CHIEFS WILL BE REPRESENTED IN THIS BEAUTIFUL PIECE. 

 PLEASE DONATE OR PURCHASE PRE ORDERS TO ALLOW ME TO BRING THIS PAINTING TO COMPLETION .

EACH PRORTAIT REQUIRES APPROXIMATELY 24 HOURS TO COMPETE.

IF WE SELL OUT THE EDITION BY THE END OF JANUARY 2015, I COULD HAVE THE PAINTING COMPLETED BY AUGUST 29, 2015

Go to Webstore to purchase or donate

Thank you 

Michael Bedard Fine art

BELOW IS A KEY MAP TO IDENTIFY EACH CHIEF AND HIS NATION

WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE. FOR THE LIMITED EDITION PRINTS

Six Nations -A Remnant of the House of Israel  (Group portrait depiction of 85 of Six Nations Chiefs)

On August 29, 1877 in the Saint George Temple, under the direction of President Wilford Woodruff, vicarious

 temple work was done for 85 chiefs from the Six Nations.

The goal of this painting is to encourage Native American Indians, and others, to seek out and value their heritage, and to share it with future generations.

Each portrait will be as accurate as my research, abilities and prayer will grant. I firmly believe that the more accurate I am the

 stronger the spirit of the painting will be, and the more good it will accomplish.

Title: Six Nations - A Remnant of The House of Israel

Print size: 15 x 30  Number in Edition: 385, signed by artist

Limited Edition giclee canvas print: $225.00 Unframed.  $425 Framed or Canvas Wrap.

This price includes an 18 x 24 inch Keymap (valued at $29.95).

Clearing Storm

I Shot the scrap  to this painting almost at the bottom of the hill  west of the temple . a  dark lillies rain  storm had just cleared  and I thought how beautiful it was with this Day lillies in the foreground kind of a vision for the future of

 Nauvoo's Temple being restored. 

Available for Purchase

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Clearing Storm

Oil on Panel

30 x 40

$6,500.00 

The Nauvoo Temple Restored 

by Michael Bedard © 

The Nauvoo Temple is a beautiful sight in the winter season. Quiet and light, it is clear and soft on the eyes. This Winter landscape is seen from about 200 feet west looking east towards the temple. This is the same time of year many of the early saints received there final blessings and endowments, before the great exodus west. * *Painting completed in Jan 2002 in Nauvoo, Illinois. prints now available at At the Store under Temples categories: www.bedardfineart.com

  “We should be ‘anxiously engaged’ in good causes and leave the world a better place for having lived in it .” 

Joseph Smith Presidential Candidate 1844
Artist Michael Bedard



I used this same flag first in the painting below  of the Laying of the Nauvoo Temple.

  “We should be ‘anxiously engaged’ in good causes and leave the world a better place for having lived in it .” 

Joseph Smith Presidential Candidate 1844
Artist Michael Bedard



I used this same flag first in the painting below  of the Laying of the Nauvoo Temple.

Joseph Smith martyred on June 27, 1844, at the Carthage Jail, ending his brief presidential campaign. Although he did not gain redress for the wrongs suffered by the Saints in Missouri, his campaign had brought much favorable public attention to the Church. Many years later, President Ezra Taft Benson said, Joseph Smith’s presidential campaign had sought to make the United States a better place, not only for the Latter-day Saints, but for all Americans. http://josephsmithsr.com/

also if you would like to purchase a print of this go to my web sight store/Patriotic 

www.bedardfineart.com Smith martyred on June 27, 1844, at the Carthage Jail, ending his brief presidential campaign. Although he did not gain redress for the wrongs suffered by the Saints in Missouri, his campaign had brought much favorable public attention to the Church. Many years later, President Ezra Taft Benson said, Joseph Smith’s presidential campaign had sought to make the United States a better place, not only for the Latter-day S

Nauvoo Temple Corner Stone Ceremony 1841   

artist Michael Bedard

 The sixth of April , 1841, was a memorable day in the history of Nauvoo. That day the corner stones of the great  temple which God had commanded his people to build were laid. Early that morning the sisters presented to Joseph  Smith and the Nauvoo Legion a silk flag with 27 stars representing each state in the union at that time. This flag was saluted with canon fire and than accompanied the Nauvoo legion as it made its solemn sacred march up mauholland street  to the laying ceremony. 

General Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith Sr. & Lucy mack Smith Noble Parents

Joseph Smith Sr. & Lucy mack Smith 
Noble  Parents

Their are not to many good portraits the sweet couple who gave so much to the world. This painting is a way to honer them and  remember them.  

I painted these Noble Parents while living in Nauvoo Illinois.

I used some very good friends of mine use would give the shirt of their back to someone in need.

As always I believe what you are on the inside shows up on the outside when doing portraits. So I picked the Andersons who live in Nauvoo.  

Noble Parents 

Joseph Smith Sr. 

                     These nobel parents, Joseph smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith  raised the young boy Joseph Smith. Jr. , who become the instraument in the Lord’s hand to retore the, “ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints”. 

      Joseph Smith Jr. wrote concerning his father: “He was a great and a good man. The envy of knaves and fools was heaped upon him. . . . He was of noble stature and possessed a high, and holy, and exalted, and virtuous mind. . . . I love my father and his memory; and the memory of his noble deeds rests with ponderous weight upon my mind, and many of his kind and parental words to me are written on the tablet of my heart.”

      In a revelation given through Joseph Smith four months after the death of his father, the Lord refers to “my aged servant Joseph Smith, Sen., who sitteth with Abraham at his right hand, and blessed and holy is he, for he is mine” (D&C 124:19).

 Lucy Mack Smith

      After six years of marriage, Lucy Mack became very ill, was diagnosed with “confirmed consumption,” Lucy did not feel prepared for death ...  She spent the night pleading with the Lord to spare her life so she could bring up her children  and “be a comfort” to her husband. She vowed that, if her life was spared, she would serve God with all her heart, whereupon she heard a voice advising her, “Seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. Let your heart be comforted; ye believe in God, believe also in me.” From that point on, Lucy began a long search for a religion that would teach her the way of salvation. 

New! Brother's Keeper Poster

Brother's Keeper 1856

This is one of my favorite stories I have ever done. The scrap shot for this painting was done on location of the sweet water. some day I'll tell the whole story of what I went through to get this image.

Artist  Michael Bedard Art copyrighted ©

  

  James Kirkwood, an eleven-year-old convert from Scotland, struggled across the frozen prairie 

with his widowed mother and brothers. While his mother attended her crippled son and the handcart,

James was responsible for his six-year-old brother, Joseph. 

      A snowstorm with icy winds strung out the caravan of beleaguered saints. James carried Joseph through rivers of ice, mud, and snow.Ascending the last miles up Rocky ridge with little Joseph on his back, James arrived late at Rock Creek camp. Here, James Kirkwood succumbed to the extreme 

exposure of the day and breathed his last for the love of his little brother.

He was buried in a common grave with thirteen others who perished that night. Little Joseph 

eventually made it into the Salt Lake Valley and went on to become a beloved Mormon Bishop of a large and grateful Salt Lake ward.

For purchase go to web store or gallery in saint George Utah.