Artists
| Name | Info | Years
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| Field, Erastus Salisbury | ![]()
Erastus
Salisbury Field and his twin sister, Salome, were born in Leverett,
Massachusetts, on 19 May 1805. Erastus Field showed an early talent for
sketching portraits, and in 1824 the aspiring artist traveled to New York City
to study with Samuel F. B. Morse. Field's instruction was cut short by the
death of Morse's wife in 1825, and it is not... | 1805 - 1900 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Rindisbacher, Peter | ![]()
Peter Rindisbacher (12 April 1806 – 12 August or 13 August
1834) was a North American artist who specialized in watercolors and
illustrations dealing with First Nation tribes of mid-Western Canada and the
United States, mostly depictions of the Anishinaabe,
Cree, and Sioux, usually in group action or genre scenes.[1]
He seldom did individual... | 1806 - 1834 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Twibill Jr., George W. | 1806 - 1836 | Anonymous | 06/10/2012 | |
| Edmonds, Francis William | ![]()
One of the
few mid-nineteenth-century painters to pursue a dual career in art and
business, Francis Edmonds managed to become an influential figure in the
interrelated spheres of banking, politics, and culture in New York City.
Edmonds was born in 1806 into a large family in Hudson, New York, where he
received a Quaker education and early artistic... | 1806 - 1863 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Prior, William Matthew | ![]()
William
Matthew Prior, the second son of Matthew Prior and Sarah Bryant Prior of
Duxbury, Massachusetts, was born in Bath, Maine, in 1806. His earliest portrait
is inscribed in the artist's hand, W. M. Prior's first portrait 1823. An
inscription on an 1824 portrait (privately owned in 1992), W. M. Prior, Painter
/ Formerly of Bath / 1824 / 3 piece... | 1806 - 1873 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Spencer, Frederick R. | ![]()
The
portraitist Frederick Randolph Spencer was born June 7, 1806 in Lennox, New
York, one of four children of the lawyer and first postmaster of Canastota,
General Ichabod Smith Spencer (1780-1857), and Mary
Pierson Spencer (1785-1865). He evinced an early interest for art, and at the
age of fifteen saw an exhibition of portraits by Ezra Ames at... | 1806 - 1875 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Marchant, Edward D. | 1806 - 1887 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 | |
| Drew, Clement | ![]()
Clement Drew (1806-1889) was an artist and "dealer in picture-frames" in Boston, Massachusetts, in the 19th century.[1] He specialized in marine paintings. He kept a studio on Court Street (ca.1840s-1860s),[2][3] Tremont Street (in the Boston Museum building, ca.1873), Copeland Street (ca.1888),[4] and Tremont Temple (1889).[5] He married Elizabeth... | 1806 - 1889 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Koch, Johann Carl | 1806 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
| Talbot, Jesse | 1806 - 1879 | Anonymous | 04/12/2012 |





