Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smibert, John | 
John
Smybert (or Smibert) (1688–1751), Scottish American artist, was born in
Edinburgh and died in Boston, Massachusetts.
Smibert began
drawing while apprenticed as a painter and plasterer, on moving to London he
worked as a painter of coach carriages and a copyist. He studied under Sir
James Thornhill at his academy, then travelled to Edinburgh... | 1688 - 1751 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| Spencer, Lilly Martin |
Lilly
Martin Spencer (born Angelique Marie Martin) (November 26, 1822 – May 22,
1902) was one of the most popular and widely reproduced American female genre
painters in the mid-nineteenth century. She painted domestic scenes, women and
children in a warm happy atmosphere. Although she did have an audience for her
work Spencer had difficulties... | 1822 - 1902 | Anonymous | 04/12/2012 |
| Stark, Otto |
Otto Stark
(1859–1926) was an American Impressionist painter who was considered to
be a member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana artists. Stark's work most clearly
showed the influence of Impressionism, and he often featured children in his
work.
He began
his career as a commercial woodcarver's apprentice in Indianapolis until an
ankle injury... | 1859 - 1926 | Anonymous | 11/17/2012 |
| Smith, Royall Brewster |
Born in
Buxton, Maine, 7 August 1801, the artist was probably named after the Smith
family's physician, Dr. Royal Brewster. As the eleventh of fourteen children of
John McCurdy and Elizabeth McLellan Smith, Royall
successfully survived a childhood of limited financial means and some illness
to become a successful artisan.
Between
1830 and 1837,... | 1801 - 1855 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Skynner, Thomas |
Virtually
nothing is known about Thomas Skynner, although a
significant body of work is now associated with his name. The attribution to Skynner of two pairs of portraits at the National Gallery
(John Stone, 1953.5.55; Eliza Welch Stone, 1953.5.56; Portrait of a Man,
1967.20.4; Portrait of a Woman, 1967.20.5) was made on the basis of... | Born 1840 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Smith, Thomas |
Thomas
Smith was a seventeenth-century Anglo-American mariner and artist. He is the
earliest painter in New England for whom a specific canvas can
be—identified his self-portrait (fig. 1). Based on stylistic similarities
to that painting, five additional surviving works have been attributed to
Smith. Besides his role as an artist, interpretations... | 1650 - 1691 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Smith, Walter Granville |
Walter
Granville Smith was born in Bellport, New York on January 26, 1870 and he died
in Granville, New York in 1938. He was a painter and illustrator who studied
with W. Satterlee, C. Beckwith and Willard Metcalf at
the Arts Student League in New York City and in Paris at the Academie Julian. He was a member of the American Water
Color Society,... | 1870 - 1938 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam |
Arthur
Fitzwilliam Tait (February 5, 1819 – April 28, 1905) was an American
artist who is known mostly for his paintings of wildlife. During most of his
career, he was associated with the New York City art scene.
Biography
Tait was
born in Lively Hall near Liverpool, England. At eight years old, because his
father went bankrupt he was sent to... | 1819 - 1905 | Anonymous | 12/22/2012 |
| Thayer, Abbott Handerson |
Abbott Handerson Thayer (August 12, 1849 – May 29, 1921) was
an American artist, naturalist and teacher. As a painter of portraits, figures,
animals and landscapes, he enjoyed a certain prominence during his lifetime, as
indicated by the fact that his paintings are part of the most important U.S.
art collections. During the last third of his... | 1849 - 1921 | Anonymous | 11/12/2012 |
| Stouter, D.G. |
Nothing but
the name, given in the inscription as D. G. Stouter, / Artist, is known about
the artist who created the National Gallery's painting, On Point (1980.62.68).
However, the source he copied has been identified as an 1854 Gleason's
Pictorial article on grouse shooting, which is accompanied by a print almost
identical to Stouter's painting.... | Born 1854 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
