Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smith, Dana | 
Very little
is known about Dana Smith, the supposed painter of the National Gallery's
painting Southern Resort Town (1971.83.11) and New Hampshire Panorama (also a Garbisch gift, to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
According to the Garbisch records, he was born in New
Hampshire in 1805, lived in Franklin where he painted local scenes and died... | 1805 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Smith, James Passmore | 1803 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Strobel, Louisa Catherine | 1803 - 1883 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Shute, Ruth Whittier |
Ruth W.
Shute and her physician husband Dr. Samuel A. Shute were itinerant portrait
painters known for their individual and collaborated watercolor portraits of
individuals living in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and
northern New York State beginning in 1827.
It appears
Samuel became very ill around 1834-35 and was unable to... | 1803 - 1882 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Sebron, Hippolyte Victor Valentin | 1801 - 1897 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Smith, Royall Brewster |
Born in
Buxton, Maine, 7 August 1801, the artist was probably named after the Smith
family's physician, Dr. Royal Brewster. As the eleventh of fourteen children of
John McCurdy and Elizabeth McLellan Smith, Royall
successfully survived a childhood of limited financial means and some illness
to become a successful artisan.
Between
1830 and 1837,... | 1801 - 1855 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Sheffield, Isaac |
Little is
known about the life of Isaac Sheffield, yet he left a substantial body of
easily recognizable work. His usual subjects, painted during the 1830s and
early 1840s, were sea captains and their families from the bustling Connecticut
port of New London and nearby towns.
The
artist's father, Captain Isaac Sheffield, was a shipmaster who... | 1798 - 1845 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Smith, Joseph B. |
A
traditional American marine artist in ever sense, it
is unusual for an artist to exhibit such a high level of quality, which Joseph
B. Smith does, and have only two dozen or so known surviving works to his
credit. The majority of works were performed in conjunction with his son,
William S. Smith; born in 1821. Their partnership appears to have... | 1796 - 1876 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Street, Robert |
Robert
Street was born in 1796 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, the grandson of an English
immigrant who had mistakenly been disinherited. His activity as an artist is
undocumented until 1815, when he exhibited a painting at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts. He exhibited there sporadically until 1861. Between
1821 and 1823 he achieved a... | 1796 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/24/2012 |
| Svinin, Pavel Petrovich | 1787/88 - 1839 | Alexander Lusher | 03/18/2012 |
