Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dickinson, Anson | 
Anson Dickinson, a painter of miniature portraits, was born in Milton, Connecticut, in 1779. He was the eldest of ten children born to Oliver Dickinson Junior (1757-1847) and Anna Landon Dickinson (1760-1849). As a boy, Anson Dickinson was apprenticed to Litchfield silversmith Isaac Thompson. Little else is known about his early art training. He first... | 1779 - 1852 | Anonymous | 05/13/2012 |
| Jarvis, John Wesley |
Although
born in England in 1780, John Wesley Jarvis was the son of an American mariner
who moved his family back to the United States by the mid-1780s. At the end of
that decade, the Jarvises settled in Philadelphia,
where the artist spent his childhood and began his artistic training. He is
known to have frequented the studio of the aging Matthew... | 1780 - 1840 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Hicks, Edward |
Edward
Hicks (April 4, 1780 – August 23, 1849) was an American folk painter, a
distinguished minister of the Society of Friends, and he also became a Quaker
icon because of his paintings.
Life and career
Early life
Edward
Hicks was born in his grandfather's mansion at Attleboro (now Langhorne), in
Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His parents were... | 1780 - 1849 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 |
| Gimbrede, Thomas |
Gimbrede
was born in Agen, France in 1781 but emigrated to America, where he worked in New York and
Baltimore as an engraver and miniature painter, before taking up a position as
teacher of drawing and of French at the West Point Military Academy, where he
died 24 Dec 1832.
Judging by
the comments on his grave at West Point, where it is recorded... | 1781 - 1832 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 |
| Woodside, John A. | 1781 - 1852 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 | |
| Fraser, Charles |
Charles
Fraser was born on August 20, 1782 and grew up in Charleston, South Carolina.
During his childhood he began learning about the world of painting. Despite the
lack of support from his parents to pursue a painting career, Fraser endured
with the encouragement of his fellow painters and friends. Other artistic
support came from one of his... | 1782 - 1860 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |
| Waldo, Samuel Lovett |
The
portraitist Samuel Lovett Waldo was born April 6, 1783, in Windham,
Connecticut, one of eight children born to farmer Zacheus
Waldo and his wife Esther Stevens Waldo. At the age of sixteen he went to
Hartford and took drawing lessons from an obscure painter named Joseph Steward.
He set up a studio there in 1803, but found few clients and... | 1783 - 1861 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Sully, Thomas |
Thomas
Sully (June 19, 1783 – November 5, 1872) was a well-known American
(English-born) painter, mostly of portraits.
Life and career
Early life
Sully was born
in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England, to the actors
Matthew and Sarah Sully. In March 1792 the Sullys and
their nine children immigrated to Richmond, Virginia, where Thomas’s
uncle... | 1783 - 1872 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
| Howell, Parmenas | 1784 - 1808 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
| Peale, Rubens |
Rubens
Peale (May 4, 1784 – July 17, 1865) was an American artist and museum
director. Born in Philadelphia, he was a son of artist-naturalist, Charles Willson Peale.
Life
He was the
fourth son of Charles Willson Peale. Rubens had weak
eyes and, unlike most of his siblings, did not set out to be an artist. He
traveled with the family in 1802 to... | 1784 - 1864 | Anonymous | 05/10/2012 |
