Artists
Name | Info | Years
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Kurz & Allison Art Publishers | ![]() Kurz and Allison were a major publisher of chromolithographs in the late 19th century. Based at 267-269 Wabash Avenue in Chicago, they built their reputation on large prints published in the mid-1880s depicting battles of the American Civil War. This was a period of recollection among veterans, and the company was trying to capitalise of this... | Active ca. 1888 - 1890 | Anonymous | 11/05/2012 |
Blum, Robert Frederick | ![]()
Robert
Frederick Blum was a major figure painter and illustrator who emerged from the
active artistic milieu of mid-century Cincinnati, where he was born. From his
studies in Cincinnati, Blum traveled to Philadelphia and studied art at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1876-1877). Blum and many of his
contemporaries greatly admired the... | Active ca. 1877 - 1900 | Anonymous | 08/05/2012 |
Chappel, William P. | Active ca. 1869 - 1870 | Anonymous | 06/02/2012 | |
Randall, A.M. | ![]()
No
information on the artist has been located. The artist's name and active date
of 1777 come from the inscription on the National Gallery's painting Basket of
Fruit with Parrot (1980.62.20). While it is possible that this is an English
painting, it probably was produced in America by an artist copying a European
still life, or more likely, a... | Active ca. 1777 | Anonymous | 11/02/2013 |
Woodhouse, C.L. | Active ca. 1869 | Anonymous | 02/20/2012 | |
Smith, Thomas | ![]()
Thomas
Smith was a seventeenth-century Anglo-American mariner and artist. He is the
earliest painter in New England for whom a specific canvas can
be—identified his self-portrait (fig. 1). Based on stylistic similarities
to that painting, five additional surviving works have been attributed to
Smith. Besides his role as an artist, interpretations... | 1650 - 1691 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
Duyckinck, Gerrit | 1660 - ca. 1712 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
The Freake Limner | Born 1670 | Anonymous | 12/22/2012 | |
Partridge, Nehemiah | ![]()
In 1980
Mary Black proposed that Nehemiah Partridge may be the anonymous artist
recognized variously by the appellations "Schuyler Limner" and "Aetatis Suae Limner".
Nehemiah
Partridge, one of four members of his family known to have borne this name, was
one of five children of Col. William Partridge (c. 1652-1728) and Mary Brown,
who were married... | 1683 - 1737 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
Vanderlyn, Pieter | ![]()
Pieter
Vanderlyn (* 1687 , † 1778 in Shawangunk ) was an American painter of
Dutch origin. He is the Patroon Painters counted.
Vanderlyn
in 1718 emigrated from the Netherlands, probably via Curacao to New York one.
It is unclear where he then resided, presumably in Kingston on the Hudson River
, 130 km north of New York , or Albany .
He... | 1687 - 1778 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |