Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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Paul, Jeremiah |
Jeremiah
Paul ( fl 1795; d nr St Louis, MO, 13 July 1820). American painter. He was a minor yet versatile artist whose
career began in Philadelphia, PA, in the 1790s. The son of a Quaker
schoolmaster, Paul received his early training from Charles Willson
Peale and in 1795 participated in the founding of the Columbianum,
Peale's ill-fated attempt to... | 1775 - 1820 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
Phillips, Jay Campbell | 1873 - 1948 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
Parshall, DeWitt | 1864 - 1956 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
Potts, William Sherman | 1876 - 1930 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
Post, William Merritt | 1856 - 1935 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
Phillips, Ammi |
Ammi
Phillips painted for more than fifty years, producing perhaps as many as two
thousand portraits in so many disparate styles that his works were once thought
to be by several different artists. Currently about five hundred works can be
attributed to him, most sharing the characteristics of plain backgrounds,
strongly contrasting light and dark... | 1788 - 1865 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
Pennell, Joseph | 1857 - 1926 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
Pratt, Matthew |
Matthew
Pratt was born in Philadelphia in 1734. He served an apprenticeship with his
uncle James Claypoole, a limner and painter, from
1749 to 1755. Pratt opened a similar business which he interrupted with a brief
speculative trading voyage to Jamaica. When he returned to Philadelphia he
began to paint portraits, at which he proved very... | 1734 - 1805 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
Pine, Robert Edge |
Robert Edge
Pine was an English portraitist and history painter who spent the last four
years of his life in the United States. He was one of the first artists to
paint history paintings of the events of the American Revolution.
Pine was
born in London, around 1730, the son of engraver John Pine. His exact birth
date has never been discovered, and... | 1720 - 1788 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
Pillement, Follower of Jean-Baptiste | 1727 - 1808 | Anonymous | 03/30/2012 |