Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnston, Henrietta | 
Henrietta
de Beaulieu Dering Johnston (ca. 1674[1] – March 9, 1729) was a pastelist
of uncertain origin active in the English colonies in North America from
approximately 1708 until her death. She is both the earliest recorded female
artist and the first known pastelist working in the English colonies.[2]
Life
Both the
date and place of... | ca. 1674 - 1729 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Johnston, John |
John
Johnston was born in Boston c. 1753, the son of engraver and decorative painter
Thomas Johnston (c. 1708-1767). Of four brothers who became painters, John
Johnston was the most talented. He was apprenticed after his father's death to
coach and heraldic painter John Gore. In 1773 he joined his brother-in-law
Daniel Rea, Jr. in the painting firm... | 1753 - 1818 | Anonymous | 04/06/2012 |
| Johnston, William | 1732 - 1772 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
| Jones, Francis Coates |
Throughout
a varied career that embraced mural painting and interior design as well as
easel painting, Francis Coates Jones pursued the perennial theme of women and
children in intimate settings. Jones was born in Baltimore, son of a successful
businessman. Although his older brother, Hugh Bolton Jones (1848–1927),
was a landscape painter,... | 1857 - 1932 | Anonymous | 06/18/2012 |
| Jones, Hugh Bolton |
H. Bolton
Jones was an award winning landscape artist of the late nineteenth century,
whose paintings of pastoral scenes were widely exhibited in the United States
around the turn of the century.
Born in
1848 in Baltimore, Jones began his formal studies at the Maryland Institute. In
1865, he studied under Horace W. Robbins in New York City, and... | 1848 - 1927 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jones, Robert | Died ca. 1848 | Anonymous | 05/16/2012 | |
| Jones, Seth Corbett | 1853 - 1930 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
| Jongers, Alphonse | 1872 - 1945 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
| Jordan, Samuel |
Only four
signed paintings by Samuel Jordan are known and few biographical facts have
been ascertained. The inscriptions on the verso of the National Gallery's
painting Eaton Family Memorial (1955.11.9) indicate that he was born in 1803 or
1804 and resided in Boston at some time in his life. From a diary kept by Isaac
Watts Merrill (1803-1878), we... | 1803 - 1831 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Jouett, Matthew Harris |
Matthew Harris Jouett was born April 22, 1788, near Harrodsburg, in what became Mercer County, Kentucky. Except for a few trips outside the state in search of commissions, he would reside virtually all of his life in Kentucky. His father, Captain Jack Jouett, was known as the "Paul Revere of the South" in honor of his 1781 ride warning Southern... | 1788 - 1827 | Anonymous | 04/02/2012 |
