Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
  | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Conant Limner | 
Approximately
eleven portraits can be attributed to this unidentified painter. His
identification as The Conant Limner is derived from the last name of four
sitters who constitute the largest family group by his hand. The Conants lived in Sterling, Massachusetts, where several of
this limner's works remain. Although likenesses by this hand have... | Born 1813 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| The Denison Limner |
The
identity of the artist who created the Denison family portraits has long eluded
scholars. His sitters are all from Stonington, Connecticut, and their portraits
are part of the tradition of Connecticut portraiture that flourished from c.
1790/1810.
One of the
first to suggest an identity for The Denison Limner was Ralph Thomas of the New
Haven... | Born 1790 | 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 |
| Longpre, Paul de |
A famous
French and American flower painter, Paul de Longpre
was the most significant watercolor specialist to arrive in Los Angeles in the
late 19th century and became the city's first major still-life painter. It is
likely he was the first southern California painter to earn a major national
reputation.
He was born
in Lyons, France, where he was... | 1855 - 1911 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Lord, Caroline | 1860 - 1927 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
| Lorenz, Richard |
While still
in his middle teens, Richard Lorenz studied sculpture in Germany. Later he
received an art scholarship (endowed by Franz Liszt) to attend the Academy of
Fine Arts in Weimar, Germany to study drawing. While there, he twice received
the school's highest award.
Lorenz was
recruited in Germany to come to America, and in the spring of... | 1858 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Low, William Hillock |
William
Hillock Low was a prominent force in the New York art world during the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known
primarily as a muralist, Low studied with the French neo-classicist painter,
Jean-Léon-Gérôme
during the 1870s. Although the artist created a number of works in the style of
his teacher, he eventually expanded his... | 1853 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Luks, George |
George
Benjamin Luks, (August 13, 1867–October 29, 1933) was an American realist
artist and illustrator. His vigorously painted genre paintings of urban
subjects are examples of the Ashcan school in American art.
Early life
Luks was
born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to Central European immigrants. His father
was a physician and his mother was... | 1866 - 1933 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Lungren, Fernand Harvey |
Painter and
illustrator Fernand Lungren
is best known for vibrantly colored images of the scenic wonders of the
American Southwest. Lungren was born in Hagerstown,
Maryland, but grew up in Toledo, Ohio. In 1876, he abandoned his studies in
mining engineering at the University of Michigan and went to Cincinnati. There,
painters Alfred Laurens... | 1857 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Maccallum, Andrew | 1821 - 1902 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
