Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robinson, J.C. | 
The
inscription on the reverse of the National Gallery's Portrait of an Old Man
(1955.11.14) identifies the painter as J. C. Robinson. No biographical
information on Robinson has been discovered. A Joseph C. Robinson who made
daguerreotypes is listed in directories from New York City in 1848 and from
Cincinnati in 1850-1851. Whether he painted... | Born 1848 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Low, Bertha Lea | Born 1848 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
| Laux, August |
German born
August Laux achieved a considerable reputation in the
1870s for his frescoes and decorative paintings, but switched to genre scenes
and still lifes a decade later. His work, always
traditional in style, was highly regarded in his day but forgotten soon after
his death.
He was born
in the Pfalz area of the Rhineland in 1847 to... | 1847 - 1921 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Farny, Henry |
Born in
Alsace Lorraine, France, Henry Farny became a
well-known American illustrator and painter, especially for quiet aspects of
Indian life such as campfire scenes.
Farny,
working in a highly realistic, detailed style, had a deep regard for Indians as
individuals, and often depicted them in an harmonious
environment. Only a few of... | 1847 - 1916 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Bridgman, Frederick Arthur |
Frederick
Arthur Bridgman (November 10, 1847 – January 13, 1928) was an American
artist known for his paintings of "Orientalist"
subjects.
Born in Tuskegee,
Alabama, he was the son of a physician. He began as a draughtsman in New York
City, for the American Bank Note Company in 1864–1865, and studied art in
the same years at the Brooklyn Art... | 1847 - 1928 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
| Hamilton, Hamilton | 1847 - 1928 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
| Steele, Theodore Clement |
Theodore
Clement Steele (September 11, 1847-July 24, 1926) was an American Impressionist
painter known for his Indiana landscapes. Theodore Steele's paintings are in
many public collections, including those of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Indiana University Art Museum in
Bloomington, Indiana (for... | 1847 - 1926 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Blakelock, Ralph Albert |
Ralph
Albert Blakelock (October 15, 1847 – August 9, 1919) was a romanticist
painter from the United States.
Biography
Ralph
Blakelock was born in New York City on October 15, 1847.[1] His father was a successful
physician.[1] Blakelock initially set out to follow in his footsteps, and in
1864 began studies at the Free Academy of the City of... | 1847 - 1919 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
| Ryder, Albert Pinkham |
Albert
Pinkham Ryder (March 19, 1847 – March 28, 1917) was an American painter
best known for his poetic and moody allegorical works and seascapes, as well as
his eccentric personality. While his art shared an emphasis on subtle
variations of color with tonalist works of the time, it was unique for
accentuating form in a way that some art... | 1847 - 1917 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Leighton, Nicholas Winfield Scott |
Nicholas
Winfield Scott Leighton was a painter whose last known address was Boston,
MA. He was mainly a painter of
animals, and it was only by raising and trading horses that he was able to
pursue his studies. He studied
under Harrison Bird Brown and opened a studio in Boston in 1874.
He
exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1883,... | 1847 - 1898 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
