Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanwood, Franklin | 
Franklin
Stanwood was born in the Portland Alms House and shortly thereafter was adopted
by Captain Gideon Stanwood.
He was
self-taught and developed a very linear style, which accorded well with the ship
portraits for which he is best known.
He also painted "house portraits" and landscapes. He was a sailor by profession and
perhaps went to... | 1852 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Harper, William St. John | 1851 - 1910 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
| Tojetti, Virgilio | 1851 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| Dewing, Thomas Wilmer |
Thomas Dewing was born on May 4, 1851, in Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts. As a child he was interested in both drawing and in playing the violin; this early interest in music would later reappear in the themes of many of his paintings. By 1872, after a period of apprenticeship in a lithography shop, Dewing was listing his profession as "artist." He... | 1851 - 1938 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Eakins, Susan Macdowell |
Susan
Hannah Macdowell Eakins (September 21, 1851 – December 27, 1938[1]) was
an American artist and wife of Thomas Eakins. She was the fifth of eight
children of a Philadelphia engraver, well known in the artistic community. She
was a student of Eakins while he was an instructor at the Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts, and married him in... | 1851 - 1938 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Tojetti, Eduardo | 1851 - 1930 | Anonymous | 04/07/2012 | |
| Adams, John Ottis | 1851 - 1927 | Anonymous | 03/30/2012 | |
| Pearce, Charles Sprague |
During the
mid-nineteenth century, before America had truly established its claim to
artistic originality, American artists were seduced by the fascinating Parisian
art scene. During the latter half
of the nineteenth century an important group of American artists congregated in
France, among them Mary Cassatt, James Abbot MacNeill
Whistler –... | 1851 - 1914 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Anshutz, Thomas |
Thomas
Pollock Anshutz (October 5, 1851 – June 16,
1912) was an American painter and teacher. Co-founder of The Darby School and
leader at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Anshutz
was known for his award winning portraiture work and working friendship with
Thomas Eakins.
Personal life and
education
Thomas Anshutz was born in Newport,... | 1851 - 1912 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 |
| Coombs, Delbert Dana |
Delbert
Dana Coombs was born in Lisbon Falls, Maine, on July 26, 1850.
Primarily
self-taught, Coombs did take painting lessons from Scott Leighton, an animal
painter, and he studied landscapes with Harrison Bird Brown. Coombs painted actively for over fifty
years. His subjects included
portraits, landscapes, and cattle.
Coombs painted in the... | 1850 - 1938 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
