Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otis, Bass | 
Bass Otis
(July 17, 1784 - November 3, 1861), was an early
American artist, inventor, and portrait painter. He painted hundreds of
portraits including many of the best known Americans of his day, and produced
the first American lithograph in 1819.
Life and work
Otis was
born in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, the son of Josiah Otis, a... | 1784 - 1861 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
| The Beardsley Limner |
The
Beardsley Limner was an itinerant artist who worked along the old Boston Post
Road, in Connecticut and Massachusetts, from about 1785 to 1805. He executed
some of the most striking naive portraits in New England, and was given the
name The Beardsley Limner based on his handsome paintings of Elizabeth and Hezekiah
Beardsley, c.... | Born 1785 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| The Sherman Limner |
The Sherman
Limner, whose appellation derives from his portraits of the prominent Sherman
family of New Haven, Connecticut, was active circa the late years of the
eighteenth century, between 1785 and 1790. Works by The Sherman Limner share
certain characteristics which make possible the attribution of a number of
paintings. The artist's style is... | Born 1785 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |
| Audubon, John James |
John James
Audubon (Jean-Jacques Audubon) (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a
French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his
expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed
illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats. His major
work, a color-plate book... | 1785 - 1851 | Anonymous | 07/23/2012 |
| Mayhew, Frederick W. |
A native of the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Frederick W. Mayhew was born in Chilmark on 6 July 1785. Although Mayhew has been known for some time through his works, several of them signed, the biographical details of his life eluded scholars until recently. Difficulty arose from his misidentification as Nathaniel Mayhew and confusion... | 1785 - 1854 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| King, Charles Bird |
Charles
Bird King (1785–1862) is a United States artist who is best known for his
portraiture. In particular, the artist is notable for the portraits he painted
of Native American delegates coming to Washington D.C., which were commissioned
by government's Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Biography
Charles
Bird King was born in Newport, Rhode Island... | 1785 - 1862 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Peckham, Robert | 1785 - 1877 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 | |
| Frothingham, James |
The son of
a maker of carriage bodies, James Frothingham was
born near Boston, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1786. Initially he worked
in his father's shop, where he taught himself to paint the finished coaches. He
also experimented in sketching and is said to have received some instruction
from Fabius Whiting, a younger artist based... | 1786 - 1864 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Hudson Jr., William | 1787 - after 1858 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
| Svinin, Pavel Petrovich | 1787/88 - 1839 | Alexander Lusher | 03/18/2012 |
