Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irvine, Wilson Henry | 
Wilson
Henry Irvine (28 February 1869-1936) was a master American Impressionist
landscape painter.
Although
most closely associated with the Old Lyme, Connecticut art colony headed by
Florence Griswold, Irvine spent his early career near Chicago, a product of the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Irvine also painted across Western
Europe —... | 1869 - 1936 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Isham, Samuel |
Samuel Isham (1855–1914) was an American portrait and figure
painter, born in New York. He graduated from Yale in 1875 and studied law, but
after being admitted to the bar he turned to art and studied in Paris at the Académie Julian. He exhibited at both Paris salons
and at the larger American exhibitions, and became a member of the... | 1855 - 1914 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
| Ives, Lewis Thomas | 1833 - 1894 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 | |
| Jacobsen, Antonio |
Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (November
2, 1850 – February 2, 1921) was a Danish-born American maritime artist
known as the "Audubon of Steam Vessels".[1]
Biography
Jacobsen
was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Jacobsen attended the Royal Academy of Design
before heading across the Atlantic Ocean.[1] He arrived in the United States in
1871 and... | 1850 - 1921 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
| Jacobs, Paul Emil |
Paul Emil
Jacobs (August 20, 1802, in Gotha - January 6, 1866) was a German painter.
Jacobs, son
of the philologist Frederick Jacobs, received his art training at the Munich Academy
of Fine Arts and first became known for his painting of Mercury and Argus (from
Classical mythology). In 1824 he went to Rome, where he attracted great
critical... | 1802 - 1866 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
| James, Frederick |
Frederick
E. James (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1845 – Percé,
Quebec, 17 July 1907) was an American artist. He was noted for his depictions
of 18th-century American life.
James
trained first at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later under the
famed French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.
Portraits
by him of Benjamin Franklin, Stephen... | 1845 - 1907 | Anonymous | 04/11/2012 |
| Jamieson, Bernice Evelyn | An artist and teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design in 1940, Bernice Jamieson was also a curator of New Jersey painters for the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton from the mid 1940s to the 1960s.
Source:
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art" | 1898 - 1977 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jarvis, Charles Wesley |
Charles
Wesley Jarvis, the second son of the portrait painter John Wesley Jarvis, was
born in New York City. His mother died the following year, and he and an older
brother, John, were raised by her relatives on Long Island. Jarvis' father
spent many years away from home working as an itinerant painter.
Jarvis
apparently received his earliest... | 1812 - 1868 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jarvis, John Wesley |
Although
born in England in 1780, John Wesley Jarvis was the son of an American mariner
who moved his family back to the United States by the mid-1780s. At the end of
that decade, the Jarvises settled in Philadelphia,
where the artist spent his childhood and began his artistic training. He is
known to have frequented the studio of the aging Matthew... | 1780 - 1840 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jay, Cecil | 1884 - 1930 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
