Artists

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Palmer, Frances Floranotes
"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 - 1876Anonymous07/28/2012
Peale, Harriet Cany 1800 - 1869Anonymous05/10/2012
Park, Lintonnotes
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 - 1906Anonymous05/19/2012
Partridge, Nehemiahnotes
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 - 1737Anonymous05/19/2012
Palmer, Walter Launtnotes
Walter Launt Palmer was the nineteenth century’s most celebrated painter of snow scenes. The son of the sculptor Erastus Dow Palmer, Walter was surrounded by great art and artists at an early age. He trained with the noted Hudson River School landscapist Frederic Church and exhibited at the National Academy of Design before embarking on a...
1854 - 1932Anonymous07/29/2012
Paxton, William McGregornotes
William McGregor Paxton (June 22, 1869 – 1941) was an American Impressionist painter. Born in Baltimore, the Paxton family came to Newton Corner in the mid-1870s, where William's father James established himself as a caterer. At 18, William won a scholarship to attend the Cowles Art School, where he began his art studies with Dennis Miller...
1869 - 1941Anonymous05/19/2012
Lamb, A.A.notes
No documents about A. A. Lamb or other paintings by him have been discovered. His sympathetic treatment of the subject of the National Gallery's painting Emancipation Proclamation (1955.11.10) suggests he was a Northerner, perhaps from New York, where he could have known the Henry K. Brown statue of George Washington used as a model for the figure...
Born 1864Anonymous05/17/2012
Hashagen, A.notes
Nothing is known about this artist, except the name A. HASHAGEN and the date MAY 1847, both part of the inscription on the National Gallery's painting Ship "Arkansas" Leaving Havana (1956.13.4). Some Hashagens emigrated to America from the vicinity of Bremen, Germany, in the nineteenth century, but no connection has been made between them and the...
Born 1847Anonymous04/11/2012
Phillips, Amminotes
Ammi Phillips painted for more than fifty years, producing perhaps as many as two thousand portraits in so many disparate styles that his works were once thought to be by several different artists. Currently about five hundred works can be attributed to him, most sharing the characteristics of plain backgrounds, strongly contrasting light and dark...
1788 - 1865Anonymous03/31/2012
Low, Bertha Lea Born 1848Anonymous05/17/2012
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