Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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Vanderlyn, John |
John
Vanderlyn (October 18, 1775 – September 23, 1852) was an American
neoclassicist painter.
Biography
Vanderlyn
was born at Kingston, New York. He was employed by a print-seller in New York,
and was first instructed in art by Archibald Robinson (1765–1835), a
Scotsman who was afterwards one of the directors of the American Academy of... | 1775 - 1852 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Shirlaw, Walter |
Walter
Shirlaw (August 6, 1838 – December 30, 1909) was a Scottish-American
artist.
Shirlaw was
born in Paisley, Scotland, and moved to the United States with his parents in
1840. He worked as a bank-note engraver, and his work was first exhibited at
the National Academy in 1861.
He was
elected an academician of the Chicago Academy of Design in... | 1838 - 1909 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Falconer, John Mackie |
John Mackie
Falconer (1820–1903) was a Scottish-born American etcher, painter, and
watercolorist. Born in Edinburgh, he came to the United States in 1836.
A full
member of the New York Etching Club, he was made an honorary member of the
National Academy of Design in 1856. He is known for studies of older buildings
and ruins. Falconer was a... | 1820 - 1903 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Way, Andrew John |
Baltimore
boasted a thriving art community in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Even in the midst of the Civil War, the Maryland Academy provided professional
training for aspiring artists and the Maryland Art Association regularly
exhibited artists' works. By far, the most popular of Baltimore's numerous
successful artists at mid-century... | 1826 - 1888 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Parsons, Charles | 1821 - 1910 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 | |
Wyant, Alexander Helwig |
Alexander
Helwig Wyant, was born January 11, 1836, in Ohio - and he died November 29,
1892 in New York, New York.
He was an
American landscape painter. Also known as Alexander Wyant, A. H. Wyant, he was
active as an artist in Arkville, New York, and Keene Valley, New York among
other places.
Biography
Alexander
Wyant was born at Port Washington,... | 1836 - 1892 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Neagle, John |
John Neagle
(4 November 1796 – 17 September 1865) was a fashionable American painter,
primarily of portraits, during the first half of the 19th century in
Philadelphia.
Biography
Neagle was born
in Boston, Massachusetts. His training in art began with instruction from the
drawing-master Pietro Ancora and an apprenticeship to Thomas Wilson,... | 1796 - 1865 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Miller, George M. |
George M.
Miller was a stone-cutter, potter, and sculptor who often "modeled"
in wax. Among biographical sources there is disagreement about whether his
birthplace was Scotland or Germany, and about the original spelling of his last
name: Muller, Müller, or Miler. Nothing is known
about his family, education, or date of birth.
Miller had
come to... | Died 1819 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Huntington, Daniel |
Daniel
Huntington (October 4, 1816 – April 19, 1906), American artist, was born
in New York City, New York, the son of Benjamin Huntington, Jr. and Faith
Trumbull Huntington; his paternal grandfather was Benjamin Huntington, delegate
at the Second Continental Congress and First U.S. Representative from
Connecticut. From 1833 to 1835 he studied at... | 1816 - 1906 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Reynolds, Virginia Richmond | 1866 - 1903 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |