Artists

Born in Missouri in 1843, William Samuel Parrott came west with his family to Oregon in 1847, and moved with them to Washington in 1859. By 1867 he had established himself as a painter in Portland, where he would maintain a studio for twenty years Parrott painted throughout the West from California to Idaho, but is best known for his paintings of...

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...

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...

William Page (January 3, 1811 in Albany, New York – October 1, 1885 in Tottenville, Staten Island) was an American painter and portrait artist. Life and work William Page studied at Phillips Academy, Andover in 1828-29 (not the Andover Theological Seminary on the same campus, as is commonly asserted). A man of mercurial temperament, Page was...