Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schipper, Gerrit | 
Gerrit Schipper (baptized 13 September 1775, Amsterdam – c.
1832 London) was a Dutch painter specializing in pastel portraiture and
miniature portrait paintings. After studying in Paris in the 1790s, he spent
time in Brussels and Russia. He is believed to have arrived in the United
States in 1802. He was active in New York, Charleston, Savannah,... | 1775 - ca. 1830 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |
| Eichholtz, Jacob |
Jacob Eichholtz was born November 2, 1776, in Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, where he spent much of his life. His first drawing lessons were
rudimentary, obtained from a sign painter. He apprenticed with a copper and
tinsmith before being hired as a journeyman to a master coppersmith in 1801. He
established his own business, working as a tinsmith until... | 1776 - 1842 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Shaw, Joshua |
Joshua Shaw
(1776-1860) was an Anglo-American artist and inventor.[1]
Early life
Shaw was
born in Ellesmere Port, England in 1776 and was orphaned at the age of 7. To
survive he worked for a local farmer as a bird scarer. During the three years
he spent doing this work he discovered his artistic talent and began drawing
the animals he... | 1776 - 1860 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Malbone, Edward Greene |
Edward
Greene Malbone was one of the leading miniaturist
painters in early American art. Malbone was born
illegitimate and went by the name “Greene,” his mothers
name for most of his life until the court mandated that he could use his
fathers’ name, “Malbone.” Born in
Newport, Rhode Island, Malbone cultivated a love for
the arts as a... | 1777 - 1807 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Robertson, Andrew | 1777 - 1845 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 | |
| Stone, Anstiss | 1778 - 1807 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Wood, Joseph | 1778 - 1830 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 | |
| Peale, Rembrandt |
Rembrandt
Peale (February 22, 1778 – October 3, 1860) was an American artist and
museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his
likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style
was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his... | 1778 - 1860 | Anonymous | 05/10/2012 |
| Allston, Washington |
Washington
Allston (November 5, 1779 – July 9, 1843) was an American painter and
poet, born in Waccamaw Parish, South Carolina.
Allston pioneered America's Romantic movement of landscape painting. He was
well known during his lifetime for his experiments with dramatic subject matter
and his bold use of light and atmospheric... | 1779 - 1843 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
| Birch, Thomas |
Thomas
Birch, American portrait and marine painter; born in London, England, in 1779;
died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1851.
He came to
the U. S. in 1794, and assisted his artist father, William Birch, in preparing
a 29-plate collection of engravings: "Birch's Views of Philadelphia"
(1799).[1] Subscribers to the series... | 1779 - 1851 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |
