Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shumway, Henry Colton | 
SHUMWAY,
Henry Cotton, portrait painter, was born in Middletown, Conn., July 4, 1807. He
attended the public schools; served as a clerk in his father's office until his
twenty-first birthday, and at an early age produced pencil sketches, mostly
portraits, of considerable promise. He attended the antique and life classes of
the National Academy of... | 1807 - 1884 | Anonymous | 05/25/2012 |
| Rosenthal, Toby |
Toby Edward
Rosenthal (15 March 1848 in New Haven, Connecticut – 23 December 1917 in
Munich) was an American painter.
Biography
Moving to
San Francisco with his parents in 1855, he there studied painting under
Fortunato Arriola. In 1865 he went to Munich, where he was a pupil of the Royal
Academy under Strachuber, Karl Raupp and Karl Theodor... | 1848 - 1917 | Anonymous | 05/25/2012 |
| Sonntag, William Louis |
William Sonntag was one of the central figures of the Hudson River School. Primarily self-taught, his early landscapes were executed during painting excursions from Cincinnati to the Ohio River Valley and in Kentucky and West Virginia (1856 and 1859).
Born in East Liberty, Pennsylvania March 2, 1822, it is believed Sonntag studied for a short period... | 1822 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/24/2012 |
| Street, Robert |
Robert
Street was born in 1796 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, the grandson of an English
immigrant who had mistakenly been disinherited. His activity as an artist is
undocumented until 1815, when he exhibited a painting at the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts. He exhibited there sporadically until 1861. Between
1821 and 1823 he achieved a... | 1796 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/24/2012 |
| Suydam, James Augustus |
The work of
James Augustus Suydam, characterized by idealized
tranquil landscapes and seascapes illuminated by softly sunlit skies, is emblematic of the American Luminist
movement of the nineteenth century.
Biography
James
Augustus Suydam was born on March 27, 1819 in New
York City. Suydam’s family was of Dutch
decedent, tracing their ancestry... | 1819 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/24/2012 |
| Sully, Thomas Wilcocks |
Thomas Wilcocks Sully, born in Philadelphia on January 3, 1811,
was one of six children of the portrait painter Thomas Sully and his wife,
Sarah Annis Sully, who was his brother
Lawrence's widow. The younger Thomas' middle name was probably derived from his
father's patron Benjamin Chew Wilcocks, a leading
Philadelphia merchant. After studying art... | 1811 - 1847 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Stuart, Jane |
Jane Stuart
was born sometime between 1808 and 1812, the youngest child of artist Gilbert
Stuart and his wife, Charlotte Coates. Gilbert Stuart was the famed New England
painter of European kings, American presidents, prominent citizens and a
particularly well-known depiction of Sir William Grant known as The Skater.
Stuart's George Washington... | 1812 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Strong, Elizabeth |
Beloved
Carmel artist and early-day resident of Monterey, Elizabeth Strong is best
known for her small paintings of animals. Since she specialized in paintings of
animals (especially bird dogs), she was sometimes called “the Rosa
Bonheur of America.”
Born in Westport, CT on February 1, 1855,
she was the daughter of a Congregational minister.... | 1855 - 1941 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Strobel, Louisa Catherine | 1803 - 1883 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 | |
| Strean, Maria Judson | 1866 - 1949 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
