Artists

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Nicholls, Rhoda Holmesnotes
Rhoda Holmes Nicholls (1854-1930) was an American water-color painter, born in Coventry, England. She was a pupil of the Bloomsbury School of Art in London and won the Queen's scholarship, later studying in Rome under Cammerano and Vertunni. In 1884, after marrying in Sussex Burr H. Nicholls, she removed to the United States and eventually settled...
1854 - 1930Anonymous04/12/2012
Onderdonk, Robert Jenkinsnotes
Robert Jenkins Onderdonk (January 16, 1852[2] – July 2, 1917) was an American painter and art teacher, born in Catonsville, Maryland.[1] An important artist in the first stage of Texas art,[3] he was a long-time art teacher in San Antonio and Dallas, where he formed art associations and leagues; for his contributions to the culture of art and...
1852 - 1917Anonymous03/10/2013
Mount, Shepard Alonzonotes
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 - 1868Anonymous05/18/2012
Noble, Thomas S.notes
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 - 1907Anonymous07/05/2012
Page, Williamnotes
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 - 1885Anonymous10/13/2012
Mount, William Sidneynotes
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 - 1868Anonymous06/04/2012
Peale, Anna Claypoolenotes
(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 - 1878Anonymous10/13/2012
Parton, Arthurnotes
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 - 1914Anonymous05/19/2012
Parsons, Charles 1821 - 1910Anonymous04/04/2012
Peale, Charles Willsonnotes
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 - 1827Alexander Lusher05/09/2012
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