Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount, Shepard Alonzo | 
Shepard
Alonzo Mount was born in 1804 in the Long Island village of Setauket, one of
five children. His younger brother William Sidney Mount would become one of the
most acclaimed artists of his age. With Mount’s father’s death in
1814, his mother moved the family to the parental farm in Stony Brook. Shepard began his professional career... | 1804 - 1868 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Bogardus, Margaret | 1804 - 1878 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 | |
| Clark, Alvan |
Remembered
widely for his pioneering work in optics and astronomy, Alvan
Clark is less well known as an artist, although he is thought to have executed
some 500 oil portraits and miniatures during his lifetime. Clark was born in in 1804 in Ashfield, Massachusetts,
where he spent his early years on his father's farm, working at the family
mill.... | 1804 - 1887 | Anonymous | 12/14/2012 |
| De Grailly, Victor | I. Biography
Little is known about the life of French artist Victor de Grailly, famous for his Hudson River School-style landscapes of the United States. Born in France in 1804, he studied with neo-classical painter Jean Victor Bertin, who also mentored the great Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot.
Surprisingly, it is unlikely that de Grailly ever traveled to... | 1804 - 1889 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| Cummings, Thomas Seir |
Thomas Seir Cummings (1804-94) was an American miniature painter
and author, born at Bath, England. He came to New York early in life and
studied there with Henry Inman. He painted miniatures in water color, and many
of his sitters were well-known contemporaries of the artist. In 1826 he helped
to found the National Academy of Design, was its... | 1804 - 1894 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Mayr, Christian | 1805 - 1851 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 | |
| Landis, John | 1805 - 1851 | Anonymous | 04/13/2012 | |
| Andrews, Ambrose |
Ambrose Andrews was born in West Stockbridge, MA in 1805. He was a painter of landscapes, portraits and miniatures.
He studied at the National Academy of Design, NYC in 1824.
He started to work as a full time artist shortly after 1824 and was active throughout his life. He worked in Schuylerville, New York in 1824, in Troy, New York from 1829 to 1831,... | 1805 - 1870 | Anonymous | 01/06/2013 |
| Smith, Dana |
Very little
is known about Dana Smith, the supposed painter of the National Gallery's
painting Southern Resort Town (1971.83.11) and New Hampshire Panorama (also a Garbisch gift, to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
According to the Garbisch records, he was born in New
Hampshire in 1805, lived in Franklin where he painted local scenes and died... | 1805 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Brumidi, Constantino |
Constantino
Brumidi (July 26, 1805 – February 19, 1880) was an Greek/Italian-American
historical painter, best known and honored for his fresco work in the Capitol
Building in Washington, DC.
Parentage and early life
Brumidi was
born in Rome, his father a Greek and his mother an Italian. He showed his
talent for fresco painting at an early age... | 1805 - 1880 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
