Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stearns, William | 
William
Stearns has not been positively identified, but is believed to have been active
circa 1830 to 1840. The name comes from the inscription on the National
Gallery's Bowl of Fruit (1953.5.34), which reads PAINTED BY (at lower left)
WILLIAM STEARNS (at lower right), and was probably applied with a stamp. There
are two other known pictures by... | Born 1830 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Way, Andrew John |
Baltimore
boasted a thriving art community in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Even in the midst of the Civil War, the Maryland Academy provided professional
training for aspiring artists and the Maryland Art Association regularly
exhibited artists' works. By far, the most popular of Baltimore's numerous
successful artists at mid-century... | 1826 - 1888 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Willard, Archibald M. |
Archibald MacNeal Willard (August 22, 1836–October 11, 1918)
was an American painter who was born and raised in Bedford, Ohio.[1]
Willard
joined the 86th Ohio Infantry in 1863 and fought in the American Civil War.
During this time he painted several scenes from the war, and forged a
friendship with photographer James F. Ryder. Willard painted... | 1836 - 1918 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Tucker, Allen |
Allen
Tucker (1866–1939) was an American artist.
Biography
He was born
in Brooklyn, New York in 1866 and graduated from the School of Mines of
Columbia University in 1887 with a degree in architecture and worked as a
draftsman at McIlvaine and Tucker.[1] He died in 1939.
References
^ a b "Allen Tucker (1866-1939)". Gleason Fine Art.... | 1866 - 1939 | Anonymous | 04/30/2012 |
| Thompson, Benjamin |
Sir
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (in German: Reichsgraf von Rumford), FRS
(March 26, 1753 – August 21, 1814) was an Anglo-American physicist and
inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th
century revolution in thermodynamics. He also served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in
the Loyalist forces in America during... | 1753 - 1814 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Ulrich, Charles Frederick |
Expatriate
painter Charles Frederick Ulrich documented the ordinary life of immigrants,
craftsmen, and other rarely portrayed subjects in late nineteenth-century
Europe and America in interior genre scenes, or scenes of everyday life, that
emphasize the subtle effects of daylight. Ulrich was a native of New York City
and the son of a photographer.... | 1858 - 1908 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 |
| Wimar, Charles |
Karl
Ferdinand Wimar (also known as Charles Wimar and Carl Wimar)
(1828-1862), was a painter of Western Native Americans and buffaloes.
He is
particularly known for his 1855-1856 painting entitled The Abduction of Boone's
Daughter by the Indians, a depiction of the 1776 capture of Jemima Boone and
two other girls by Indians. The painting shows... | 1828 - 1862 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
| Tryon, Dwight W. |
Dwight
William Tryon (August 13, 1849 – July 1, 1925) was an American landscape
painter in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work was influenced by
James McNeill Whistler, and he is best-known for his landscapes and seascapes
painted in a tonalist style.
Biography
Tryon was
born in Hartford, Connecticut. His father was killed in a gun... | 1849 - 1925 | Anonymous | 04/13/2012 |
| Weeks, Edwin Lord |
Edwin Lord
Weeks (1849 – 1903), American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts,
in 1849. He was a pupil of Léon Bonnat and of Jean-Léon
Gérôme, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was
distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes.
Weeks'
parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston
and as such... | 1849 - 1903 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Vedder, Elihu |
Elihu Vedder (February 26, 1836 – January 29, 1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet, born in New York City.
He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (deluxe edition, published by Houghton Mifflin).
Biography
Elihu Vedder was born February 26,... | 1836 - 1923 | Anonymous | 11/12/2012 |
