Artists

Name
InfoYearsUpdated byDate
Doughty, Thomasnotes
Thomas Doughty was born in Philadelphia on July 19, 1793, and lived there until 1828. Although little is known about his formal education, he apparently showed a strong talent for drawing from an early age. When he was fifteen or sixteen Doughty was apprenticed to a leather worker, and by 1814 he was listed in the Philadelphia directory as a...
1793 - 1856Anonymous02/12/2012
Dow, Arthur Wesleynotes
An innovative artist and influential art theorist and teacher, Arthur Wesley Dow was a proponent of pure design principles rather than literal naturalism as the basis for art. Dow was a native of Ipswich, Massachusetts, whose flat coastal landscape and subtly shifting light proved a powerful source of aesthetic inspiration. He studied art privately...
1857 - 1922Anonymous05/15/2012
Doyle, William M. S.notes
William M.S. Doyle was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1769. His father was a British soldier, but Doyle seems to have lived and worked his entire life in Boston. Doyle was a silhouettist, artist of portraits of both full-size and miniature. He worked in silhouette cutting, watercolor, oil and pastel. His silhouettes were beautifully rendered in...
1769 - 1828Anonymous12/14/2012
Drew, Clementnotes
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 - 1889Anonymous10/13/2012
Dubourjal, Savinien Edme 1795 - 1865Anonymous05/15/2012
Duncanson, Robert Scottnotes
Robert Scott Duncanson (1821 – December 21, 1872) was born in Seneca County, New York in 1821.[1] Duncanson’s father was a Canadian of Scottish descent and his mother was an African American, thus making him “a freeborn person of color.”[2] Duncanson, an artist who is relatively unknown today, painted America, both physically and figuratively,...
1821 - 1872Anonymous05/15/2012
Dunlap, Williamnotes
The first historian of the American stage, William Dunlap was a passionate lover of the arts, a gifted painter, a tireless chronicler of his day and a writer of considerable charm. He wrote or adapted more than sixty plays. While subsequent scholarship has found a considerable number of innacuracies in his historical work, his first hand account of...
1766 - 1839Anonymous07/29/2012
Dunning, Robert Spearnotes
Dunning was a co-founder and leader of the Fall River School of still life painting.  As a boy he was employed in a Fall River mill.  Later he worked in coastal shipping while studying art.  In 1859 he joined with John E. Grouard to form the firm of Grouard & Dunning, artists.  About 1865 he began to focus on still life paintings, although he...
1829 - 1905Anonymous11/02/2013
Dunn, Julia E. 1839 -  1923Anonymous05/15/2012
Dunton, William Herbertnotes
William Herbert Dunton, known later in life as “Buck,” was born in Augusta, Maine, in 1878. His lifelong passion for the outdoors was nurtured from an early age by his grandfather, who took him on expeditions, teaching him about hunting and fishing. Drawing the outdoors followed naturally. As a child, Dunton was self-taught, developing a precise...
1878 - 1936Anonymous10/13/2012
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