Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
  | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharples, James | 
James Sharples (1751 or 1752 in Lancashire – 26 February
1811 in New York [1]) was an English portrait painter and pastelist,
who moved to the United States in 1794. He first exhibited at the Royal
Academy in 1779.
History
James was
first intended for the Catholic priesthood, but became an artist instead.[3] Sharples headed a family... | 1751 - 1811 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
| Shattuck, Aaron Draper |
Aaron
Draper Shattuck (1832-1928) was an American painter of the White Mountain
School. He was born in Francestown, New Hampshire. A second-generation artist
affiliated with the Hudson River School, Shattuck differed from most of his
contemporaries in that he never studied abroad, and appears to have spent his
entire life in New... | 1832 - 1928 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Shaw, Joshua |
Joshua Shaw
(1776-1860) was an Anglo-American artist and inventor.[1]
Early life
Shaw was
born in Ellesmere Port, England in 1776 and was orphaned at the age of 7. To
survive he worked for a local farmer as a bird scarer. During the three years
he spent doing this work he discovered his artistic talent and began drawing
the animals he... | 1776 - 1860 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Sheffield, Isaac |
Little is
known about the life of Isaac Sheffield, yet he left a substantial body of
easily recognizable work. His usual subjects, painted during the 1830s and
early 1840s, were sea captains and their families from the bustling Connecticut
port of New London and nearby towns.
The
artist's father, Captain Isaac Sheffield, was a shipmaster who... | 1798 - 1845 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Silva, Francis A. |
Francis
Augustus Silva painted coastal, beach, and river scenes that represent the
culmination of the landscape mode, dubbed “luminism”
by modern scholars, characterized by broad, horizontal compositions with low
horizons, delicate color, and crystalline light. Silva was a native of New York
City and the son of a barber. Apprenticed to a sign... | 1835 - 1886 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
| Ordway, Alfred T. |
Alfred T.
Ordway (1821–1897) was an American landscape and portrait painter, and
one of the founding fathers of the Boston Art Club.[1]
Early years
Alfred was
born in Roxbury, Massachusetts to mother Currier, and father Thomas Ordway on
March 9, 1821. With his father being the cities' clerk, Alfred spent the
majority of his childhood in Lowell,... | 1821 - 1897 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
| Newman, Benjamin Tupper |
Benjamin
Tupper Newman was born in Bath, Maine.
He studied
at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Academy of Design, Jullen's Art
School, and the Beaux Arts in Paris.
He traveled to Europe five times where he painted in southern France and
Italy. He painted scenes throughout
the United States - California, Lake Michigan, Colorado, the... | 1858 - 1940 | Anonymous | 01/02/2013 |
| Moore, Charles Herbert |
Artist,
professor, architectural historian and first Director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, Charles Herbert Moore was born on April
10, 1840 to Charles and Jane Maria Moore. He grew up in New York City, where he
attended public schools. Moore never attended college. He began a career as a
landscape painter in the 1850s, having studied at the... | 1840 - 1930 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Niles, George E. |
George E.
Niles was a lithographer as well as a painter. He kept a studio at Jackson, NH, where
he exhibited the works of many other artists.
He
exhibited at the Boston Art Club during the years 1873 to 1877.
References
New Hampshire SceneryThe Boston Art
Club Exhibition Record
| 1837 - 1898 | Anonymous | 12/14/2012 |
| McConnell, George |
George McConnell was born in Steubenville, OH in 1852 and died in Portland, ME in 1929. He studied portraiture in Philadelphia and New York. He also studied landscape painting with George Inness and continue his art training at the Academy Julien in Paris.
In 1883, at the age of thirty-one, McConnell settled in Portland, Maine. He did... | 1852 - 1929 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
