Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thompson, Alfred Wordsworth | 
Alfred
Thompson trained as a lawyer but turned to painting shortly before the Civil
War, painting both landscapes and portraits. He studied in Baltimore and in
Paris. He studied with Gleyke in 1861-62 and also with E. Lambinet
and A. Pasisi in the period 1862 to 1868.
He served
as an illustrator of war scenes with Harper's Weekly and... | 1840 - 1896 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Thom, James Crawford |
James
Crawford Thom (March 22, 1835–February 16, 1898) was an American painter.
Born in New York City, he studied at an artist colony in Perth Amboy, New
Jersey along with Louis Comfort Tiffany of stained glass fame. He also studied
with Edouard Frere, among others. He painted "By
the River-Side" "Returning from the Wood", "Tired of
Waiting",... | 1835 - 1898 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Theus, Jeremiah |
Jeremiah Theus (sometimes Jeremiah Theüs[note 1]) (April
5, 1716 – May 17, 1774) was a Swiss-born American painter, primarily of
portraits. He was active mainly around Charleston, South Carolina, in which
city he remained almost without competition for the bulk of his career.[1]
Early life and career
Theus was
born in the city of Chur, in the... | 1716 - 1774 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| The Schuyler Limner |
The
designation "Schuyler Limner" or "Schuyler Painter" can be
applied to the anonymous maker, active circa 1717 to circa 1725, of some two
dozen early eighteenth-century portraits of subjects from the Albany, New York,
area. The name is derived from what appears to be the earliest and most
ambitious effort by the artist, the full-length portrait... | Born 1717 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| The Denison Limner |
The
identity of the artist who created the Denison family portraits has long eluded
scholars. His sitters are all from Stonington, Connecticut, and their portraits
are part of the tradition of Connecticut portraiture that flourished from c.
1790/1810.
One of the
first to suggest an identity for The Denison Limner was Ralph Thomas of the New
Haven... | Born 1790 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| The Conant Limner |
Approximately
eleven portraits can be attributed to this unidentified painter. His
identification as The Conant Limner is derived from the last name of four
sitters who constitute the largest family group by his hand. The Conants lived in Sterling, Massachusetts, where several of
this limner's works remain. Although likenesses by this hand have... | Born 1813 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| The Beardsley Limner |
The
Beardsley Limner was an itinerant artist who worked along the old Boston Post
Road, in Connecticut and Massachusetts, from about 1785 to 1805. He executed
some of the most striking naive portraits in New England, and was given the
name The Beardsley Limner based on his handsome paintings of Elizabeth and Hezekiah
Beardsley, c.... | Born 1785 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Taylor, Frank Walter | 1874 - 1921 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| Tavernier, Jules |
Jules
Tavernier (1844-1889) was born in Paris in 1844 and died in Honolulu, Hawaii,
in 1889. He studied with the French painter, Félix Joseph Barrias
(1822-1907), but left France in the 1870s, never to return. Tavernier was
employed as an illustrator by Harper's Magazine, which sent him on assignment
to California in the 1870s. Eventually he... | 1844 - 1889 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Puthuff, Hanson D. |
Hanson
Duvall Puthuff (August 21, 1875 – May 12, 1972)
was a landscape painter and muralist, born in Waverly, Missouri. Puthuff studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before
moving to Colorado in 1889 to study at University of Denver Art School. He
traveled to Los Angeles in 1903 and for 23 years worked as a commercial artist
painting billboards... | 1875 - 1972 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
