Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williams, William | 
William
Williams (1727 – 27 April 1791)[1] was an
English/American painter. He was born in Bristol, England. His family is
believed to have originated in Caerphilly, Wales just
across the Severn River from Bristol. He began living in Philadelphia around 1747
after time at sea. In Philadelphia he was instrumental in building America's
first... | 1727 - 1791 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
| Winstanley, William |
William Winstanley was an early American painter born in England
and transferred to the United States as a young man. He is credited as one of
the very first American landscape painters and was active in the late 18th and
early 19th centuries.
Winstanley
has been criticized by some art historians for his “sterile
recipes” for creating... | 1775 - 1806 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 |
| Robertson, Archibald |
ROBERTSON,
ARCHIBALD (1765–1835), miniature-painter, born at Monymusk
in Scotland on 8 May 1765, was eldest son of William Robertson of Drumnahoy, near Aberdeen, and Jean Ross, his wife; Andrew
Robertson [q. v.] was his brother. He was educated at Aberdeen, and received
his first instruction in drawing from a deaf-and-dumb artist. In 1786 he... | 1765 - 1835 | Anonymous | 04/13/2012 |
| Andrews, Ambrose |
Ambrose Andrews was born in West Stockbridge, MA in 1805. He was a painter of landscapes, portraits and miniatures.
He studied at the National Academy of Design, NYC in 1824.
He started to work as a full time artist shortly after 1824 and was active throughout his life. He worked in Schuylerville, New York in 1824, in Troy, New York from 1829 to 1831,... | 1805 - 1870 | Anonymous | 01/06/2013 |
| Dickinson, Anson |
Anson Dickinson, a painter of miniature portraits, was born in Milton, Connecticut, in 1779. He was the eldest of ten children born to Oliver Dickinson Junior (1757-1847) and Anna Landon Dickinson (1760-1849). As a boy, Anson Dickinson was apprenticed to Litchfield silversmith Isaac Thompson. Little else is known about his early art training. He first... | 1779 - 1852 | Anonymous | 05/13/2012 |
| McCloskey, Alberta Binford |
In early
June 1884, William and Alberta, with two-month-old Eleanor, arrived in Los
Angeles for a visit with the Binford family.
"Mr. McCloskey is an artist of some note and is now making his first visit
to the Pacific Coast. Should he find a suitable opening, we understand he will
take up his residence in our city."[17] By 1884, the Binford
family... | 1863 - 1911 | Anonymous | 04/08/2012 |
| Wenzell, Albert Beck |
The Bell Époche, prior to World War I, was a prosperous and
extravagant era when royalty governed most of Europe. At the same time in the
United States, great fortunes were being made through unfettered trusts and
monopolies, creating a class of Nouveau Riche. This ambitious society of Robber
Barons and their social climbing wives was just as... | 1864 - 1917 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Redwood, Allen Christian |
Allen
Christian Redwood was one of the few sketch artists of the Civil War who
actually fought in military battles, and his documentation was of noted
historical value to the Southern side of the War. By the 1890s, he was a
western illustrator for Harper's, Century and other magazines and traveled
widely in the West. In 1898 Harper's sent him to... | 1844 - 1922 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| 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 |
| Agate, Alfred Thomas |
Alfred Thomas Agate (February 14, 1812, in Sparta, New York – January 5, 1846, Washington, D.C.) was a noted American artist, painter and miniaturist.
Agate lived in New York from 1831–1838. He studied with his brother, Frederick Styles Agate, a portrait and historical painter. He later went on to study with Thomas Seir Cummings.[citation needed]... | 1812 - 1846 | Anonymous | 11/17/2012 |
