Artists
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Bannister, Edward M. |
Edward Mitchell Bannister (ca. 1828 – January 9, 1901) was a Black Canadian painter whose tonalism and predominantly pastoral subject matter owed much to his admiration for Millet and the French Barbizon School.
Biography
Bannister was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick and moved to New England in the late 1840s, where he remained for the rest of... | 1828 - 1901 | Anonymous | 12/27/2012 |
Beckwith, James Carroll |
James
Carroll Beckwith (September 23, 1852 – October 24, 1917) was an American
landscape, portrait and genre painter whose Impressionist style led to his
recognition in the late nineteenth century as a prominent figure in American
art.
Biography
Carroll
Beckwith, as he preferred to be known, was born in Hannibal, Missouri on 23 September
1852,... | 1852 - 1917 | Anonymous | 01/02/2013 |
Ryder, Albert Pinkham |
Albert
Pinkham Ryder (March 19, 1847 – March 28, 1917) was an American painter
best known for his poetic and moody allegorical works and seascapes, as well as
his eccentric personality. While his art shared an emphasis on subtle
variations of color with tonalist works of the time, it was unique for
accentuating form in a way that some art... | 1847 - 1917 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
Duveneck, Frank |
Frank
Duveneck (October 9, 1848 – January 3, 1919) was an American figure and
portrait painter.
Youth
Duveneck
was born in Covington, Kentucky, the son of German immigrant Bernard Decker. Decker
died when Frank was only a year old and his widow remarried Joseph Duveneck. By
the age of fifteen Frank had begun the study of art under the tutelage... | 1848 - 1919 | Anonymous | 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 |
Moran, Thomas |
Thomas
Moran (February 12, 1837 - August 25, 1926) from Bolton, England was an
American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose
work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family took residence in
New York where he obtained work as an artist. A talented illustrator and
exquisite colorist, Moran was hired as an... | 1837 - 1926 | Anonymous | 04/06/2012 |
Doughty, Thomas |
Thomas Doughty was born in Philadelphia on July 19, 1793, and lived there until 1828. Although little is known about his formal education, he apparently showed a strong talent for drawing from an early age. When he was fifteen or sixteen Doughty was apprenticed to a leather worker, and by 1814 he was listed in the Philadelphia directory as a... | 1793 - 1856 | Anonymous | 02/12/2012 |
Chase, William Merritt |
William
Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 – October 25, 1916) was an American
painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also
responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons
The New School for Design.
Early life and training
He was born
in Williamsburg (now Nineveh), Indiana, to the... | 1849 - 1916 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Dewing, Thomas Wilmer |
Thomas Dewing was born on May 4, 1851, in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts. As a child he was interested in both drawing and in playing the violin; this early interest in music would later reappear in the themes of many of his paintings. By 1872, after a period of apprenticeship in a lithography shop, Dewing was listing his profession as "artist." He... | 1851 - 1938 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Cropsey, Jasper Francis |
Jasper Francis Cropsey (February 18, 1823 – June 22, 1900) was an important American landscape artist of the Hudson River School.
Biography
Cropsey was born on his father Jacob Rezeau Cropsey's farm in Rossville on Staten Island, New York, the oldest of eight children. As a young boy, Cropsey had recurring periods of poor health. While absent from... | 1823 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |