Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robinson, J.C. | 
The
inscription on the reverse of the National Gallery's Portrait of an Old Man
(1955.11.14) identifies the painter as J. C. Robinson. No biographical
information on Robinson has been discovered. A Joseph C. Robinson who made
daguerreotypes is listed in directories from New York City in 1848 and from
Cincinnati in 1850-1851. Whether he painted... | Born 1848 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Robbins, Horace Wolcott Jr. |
Robbins
studied at Newton University in Baltimore.
He moved to New York City after college, studied under James M. Hart in
1859, and opened his own studio in 1860.
He accompanied Frederic Church to Jamaica in 1864 and continued his
studies in England, Paris, and Switzerland in 1865 and 1866. He had a studio in the Adirondack
Mountains of... | 1842 - 1904 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Rindisbacher, Peter |
Peter Rindisbacher (12 April 1806 – 12 August or 13 August
1834) was a North American artist who specialized in watercolors and
illustrations dealing with First Nation tribes of mid-Western Canada and the
United States, mostly depictions of the Anishinaabe,
Cree, and Sioux, usually in group action or genre scenes.[1]
He seldom did individual... | 1806 - 1834 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Rimmer, William |
William
Rimmer (20 February 1816 – 20 August 1879) was an American artist born in
Liverpool, England. He was the son of a French refugee, who emigrated to Nova
Scotia, where he was joined by his wife and child in 1818, and who in 1826
moved to Boston, where he earned a living as a shoemaker. The son learned the
father's trade; at fifteen became a... | 1816 - 1879 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Richardt, Ferdinand |
Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (10 April 1819 - 29
October 1895) Danish-American artist, in Denmark known for his lithographs of
manor houses, and in the U.S. for his paintings of Niagara Falls and other
landscapes.
Life
Ferdinand Richardt, the son of Johan Joachim Richardt
and Johanne Frederikke
née Bohse, was born in Brede, north of
Copenhagen in... | 1819 - 1895 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Richards, William Trost |
William
Trost Richards (June 3, 1833 - April 17, 1905) was an American landscape artist
associated with both the Hudson River School and the American Pre-Raphaelite
movement.
Biography
William Trost
Richards was born on 3 June 1833 in Philadelphia. In 1846 and 1847 he attended
the local Central High School. Between 1850 and 1855 he studied... | 1833 - 1905 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Richards, Thomas Addison |
During the
first half of the nineteenth century artists fanned out across the northeastern
United States to find aesthetic inspiration in nature. Thomas Addison Richards
was one of the few who traveled extensively in the South. Through his
paintings, illustrated magazine articles, and guidebooks, Richards introduced
the natural beauty and distinct... | 1820 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Rhead, Louis John | 1858 - 1926 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 | |
| Rehn, Frank Knox Morton | 1848 - 1914 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 | |
| Redwood, Allen Christian |
Allen
Christian Redwood was one of the few sketch artists of the Civil War who
actually fought in military battles, and his documentation was of noted
historical value to the Southern side of the War. By the 1890s, he was a
western illustrator for Harper's, Century and other magazines and traveled
widely in the West. In 1898 Harper's sent him to... | 1844 - 1922 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
