Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strong, Elizabeth | 
Beloved
Carmel artist and early-day resident of Monterey, Elizabeth Strong is best
known for her small paintings of animals. Since she specialized in paintings of
animals (especially bird dogs), she was sometimes called “the Rosa
Bonheur of America.”
Born in Westport, CT on February 1, 1855,
she was the daughter of a Congregational minister.... | 1855 - 1941 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Symons, George Gardner |
A landscape
and marine artist, George Symons was one of America's more noted plein-air painters who combined styles of impressionism and
realism. His works are cited for their energy and simplicity, and he often did
panoramic views.
He was born
in Chicago, Illinois in 1861, with the name of George Gardner Simon, but he
changed his last name to... | 1863 - 1930 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| Stuart, Gilbert |
Gilbert
Charles Stuart (born Stewart) (December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828) was an
American painter from Rhode Island.
Gilbert
Stuart is widely considered to be one of America's foremost portraitists.[2] His best known work, the unfinished portrait of George
Washington that is sometimes referred to as The Athenaeum, was begun in 1796
and never... | 1755 - 1828 | igrkio | 04/08/2012 |
| Tanner, J.G. |
J. G.
Tanner is identified by the inscription on the National Gallery's painting
Engagement Between the "Monitor" and "Merrimac"
(1953.5.36). No biographical information or additional works by J. G. Tanner
have been found, but it is known that the painting is based on a color
lithograph issued in 1891. Tanner was active, therefore, in that year or... | Born 1891 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |
| Stewart, Julius L. |
Julius
LeBlanc Stewart (September 6, 1855, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - January 5,
1919, Paris, France), was an American artist who spent his career in Paris. A
contemporary of fellow expatriate painter John Singer Sargent, Stewart was
nicknamed "the Parisian from Philadelphia."[1]
His father,
the sugar millionaire William Hood Stewart, moved the... | 1855 - 1919 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |
| Steward, Joseph |
Joseph Steward (1753–1822) was a prominent American artist.
Early years
Joseph Steward was born on July 6, 1753. He was the son of Joseph and Jane (Wilson) Steward of Upton, Massachusetts. Stewart went to Dartmouth College, graduating in 1780.
Joseph Steward continued his studies under the guidance of Reverend Doctor Levi Hart of Preston,... | 1753 - 1822 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Stuart, Jane |
Jane Stuart
was born sometime between 1808 and 1812, the youngest child of artist Gilbert
Stuart and his wife, Charlotte Coates. Gilbert Stuart was the famed New England
painter of European kings, American presidents, prominent citizens and a
particularly well-known depiction of Sir William Grant known as The Skater.
Stuart's George Washington... | 1812 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Tavernier, Jules |
Jules
Tavernier (1844-1889) was born in Paris in 1844 and died in Honolulu, Hawaii,
in 1889. He studied with the French painter, Félix Joseph Barrias
(1822-1907), but left France in the 1870s, never to return. Tavernier was
employed as an illustrator by Harper's Magazine, which sent him on assignment
to California in the 1870s. Eventually he... | 1844 - 1889 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Stock, Joseph Whiting |
Joseph
Whiting Stock was born on 30 January 1815 in Springfield, Massachusetts. In
1826 an oxcart fell on him, paralyzing him from the waist down, and in 1832, on
the advice of his physician, he began to study art so that he might make a
living. His teacher was Franklin White, a pupil of Chester Harding (1792-1866).
In 1834,
when Stock was... | 1815 - 1855 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| 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 |
