Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date
  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pelham, Peter | 
Peter
Pelham (ca. 1695[1] – December 1751), American limner and engraver, was
born in England, a son of a man named "gentleman" in his will. His
father, who died in Chichester, Sussex, in 1756, is
revealed in letters to his son in America as a man of some property.[2]
London
Pelham was
one of several London artists who learned the then new... | 1695 - 1751 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Young, Harvey O. |
Harvey Otis Young was born in Lyndon, Vermont on November 23, 1840. He was educated there at St Johnsbury Academy and, as a teenager, worked as an ornamental painter decorating scales. In 1859 he sailed from New York City via Panama to San Francisco in search of gold. When not panning for gold in the Salmon River area, he made many sketches which... | 1840 - 1901 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| 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 |
| Paxton, William McGregor |
William
McGregor Paxton (June 22, 1869 – 1941) was an American Impressionist
painter.
Born in
Baltimore, the Paxton family came to Newton Corner in the mid-1870s, where
William's father James established himself as a caterer. At 18, William won a
scholarship to attend the Cowles Art School, where he began his art studies
with Dennis Miller... | 1869 - 1941 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Paxson, Edgar Samuel |
Edgar
Samuel Paxson (April 25, 1852 – November 9,
1919) was an American frontier painter, scout, soldier and writer, based mainly
in Montana. He is best known for his portraits of Native Americans in the Old
West and for his depiction of the Battle of Little Bighorn in his painting
"Custer's Last Stand".[1]
Biography
Paxson
was born in 1852 to... | 1852 - 1919 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Partridge, Nehemiah |
In 1980
Mary Black proposed that Nehemiah Partridge may be the anonymous artist
recognized variously by the appellations "Schuyler Limner" and "Aetatis Suae Limner".
Nehemiah
Partridge, one of four members of his family known to have borne this name, was
one of five children of Col. William Partridge (c. 1652-1728) and Mary Brown,
who were married... | 1683 - 1737 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Parton, Arthur |
Arthur
Parton was born in Hudson, New York March 26, 1842. He enrolled in the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, studying under William Trost Richards. Gaining a keen grounding in the technical
aspects of his art, Richards remained a strong influence.
Parton was
known as a Hudson River School painter, especially of river and... | 1842 - 1914 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Parrish, Maxfield | 1870 - 1966 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 | |
| Park, Linton |
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... | 1826 - 1906 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Weir, Robert W. |
Robert
Walter Weir (June 18, 1803 - May 1, 1889) was an American artist, best known as
an educator, and as an historical painter. He was considered an artist of the
Hudson River school,[1] was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1829,
and an instructor at the United States Military Academy. Among his better-known
works are: The Embarkation... | 1803 - 1889 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
