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 |
| Noble, Thomas S. |
Thomas
Satterwhite Noble (May 29, 1835 - April 27, 1907) was born in Lexington,
Kentucky. He grew up on a plantation where hemp and cotton were grown. Noble
saw the effects of slavery firsthand and portrayed many scenes of the Old South
in his works. He attended Transylvania University in Lexington and studied art
with Oliver Frazier and George P.... | 1835 - 1907 | Anonymous | 07/05/2012 |
| Page, William |
William
Page (January 3, 1811 in Albany, New York – October 1, 1885 in
Tottenville, Staten Island) was an American painter and portrait artist.
Life and work
William
Page studied at Phillips Academy, Andover in 1828-29 (not the Andover Theological
Seminary on the same campus, as is commonly asserted). A man of mercurial
temperament, Page was... | 1811 - 1885 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Mount, William Sidney |
William
Sidney Mount (November 26, 1807 – November 19, 1868) was an American
genre painter and contemporary of the Hudson River School.
Mount was
born in Setauket, New York and trained at the National Academy of Design in New
York. Although he started as a history painter, Mount moved to depicting scenes
from everyday life. Two of his more... | 1807 - 1868 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 |
| Peale, Anna Claypoole |
(b Philadelphia, PA, 6 March 1791; d Philadelphia, PA, 25 Dec
1878). Miniature painter, daughter of (2) James Peale.
She was instructed by her father. Her first attempt, a fruit piece, was
exhibited in 1811 at the Society of Artists in Philadelphia. From 1820 to 1840
she was a popular miniature painter, known for the accuracy of her likenesses
and... | 1791 - 1878 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Parton, Arthur |
Arthur
Parton was born in Hudson, New York March 26, 1842. He enrolled in the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, studying under William Trost Richards. Gaining a keen grounding in the technical
aspects of his art, Richards remained a strong influence.
Parton was
known as a Hudson River School painter, especially of river and... | 1842 - 1914 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Peale, Charles Willson |
Charles Willson Peale (April 15, 1741 – February 22, 1827) was
an American painter, soldier and naturalist. He is best remembered for his
portrait paintings of leading figures of the American Revolution, as well as
establishing one of the first museums.
Early life
Peale was
born in Chester, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, the son of Charles... | 1741 - 1827 | Alexander Lusher | 05/09/2012 |
| Palmer, Frances Flora |
"Fanny" Palmer is best known for her illustrations of American life for Currier and Ives. Born in England, she was educated in London. In the early 1840s, she and her husband immigrated to the United States, settling in New York City.
Palmer had studied art and soon found work as an illustrator specializing in lithography. By 1849 she was working for... | 1812 - 1876 | Anonymous | 07/28/2012 |
| Park, Linton |
Linton
Park, the ninth and last child of John and Mary (Lang) Park, was born on 16
November 1826 in Marion (now Marion Center), a small town in western
Pennsylvania which was originally settled in 1799 by Park's grandfather. Little
is known about Linton Park's early life, but it is generally assumed that he
worked in his father's gristmill as a... | 1826 - 1906 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Partridge, Nehemiah |
In 1980
Mary Black proposed that Nehemiah Partridge may be the anonymous artist
recognized variously by the appellations "Schuyler Limner" and "Aetatis Suae Limner".
Nehemiah
Partridge, one of four members of his family known to have borne this name, was
one of five children of Col. William Partridge (c. 1652-1728) and Mary Brown,
who were married... | 1683 - 1737 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
