Artists

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LeClear, Thomasnotes
Thomas LeClear was born in the village of Candor, near Oswego, in upstate New York, and demonstrated an early interest in painting. According to Henry T. Tuckerman's Book of the Artists, first published in 1867, LeClear, at the age of twelve, completed a painting of Saint Matthew, which was so admired by his neighbors that they were willing to pay...
1818 - 1882Anonymous05/17/2012
Brown, John Henrynotes
John Henry Brown (Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1818-1891, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Brown's prolific career illuminates the fate of antebellum miniaturists. He began an apprenticeship in 1836 to the painter Arthur Armstrong (1798-1851) while working as a clerk in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Recorder's Office. In 1839 Brown established himself as a...
1818 - 1891Anonymous04/21/2012
Hope, Jamesnotes
James Hope was born in Scotland and, following the death of his mother, accompanied his father to Canada.  At the age of twelve he was orphaned in a cholera outbreak.  Soon apprenticed to a wagon maker in Vermont, he quickly demonstrated that his native intelligence and artistic talent precluded a tradesman's career.  With money saved he...
1818 - 1892Anonymous04/10/2012
Miller, William Rickarbynotes
William was the son of the English landscape painter, Joseph Miller and most likely studied under him in England. In the winter of 1844, William immigrated to America and settled in New York City. He initially worked as a portraitist, but then began traveling across the Eastern U.S. to discover new landscape subjects. Throughout Miller’s prolific...
1818 - 1893Anonymous03/04/2013
Sachs, Lambertnotes
Lambert Sachs, a painter of portraits, landscapes, and history pictures, was born in Mannheim, Germany, on 5 November 1818. He was the son of Anna Margarete Diel and Carl Bartolomaus Sachs, a professor at the Mannheim Lyceum where Lambert studied for five years. Sachs began his education in drawing and painting in April 1832 at the painting museum...
1818 - 1903Anonymous05/22/2012
Miller, George M.notes
George M. Miller was a stone-cutter, potter, and sculptor who often "modeled" in wax. Among biographical sources there is disagreement about whether his birthplace was Scotland or Germany, and about the original spelling of his last name: Muller, Müller, or Miler. Nothing is known about his family, education, or date of birth. Miller had come to...
Died 1819Anonymous04/04/2012
Suydam, James Augustusnotes
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 - 1865Anonymous05/24/2012
Cafferty, James H. 1819 - 1869Anonymous05/15/2012
Nichols, Edward Willardnotes
Though Nichols began his career as a lawyer, he turned to art as a profession by 1848.  He studied in New York City with Jasper Cropsey and continued his education in Europe in 1853.  In 1858 he opened a studio in the 10th Street Studio Building in New York City which he kept until 1862.  He began exhibiting at the National Academy of Design in 1862...
1819 - 1871Anonymous03/15/2014
Fagnani, Joseph 1819 - 1873Anonymous05/15/2012
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