Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lanman, Charles | 
Charles
Lanman was an author, government official, artist, librarian, and explorer.
Early life and education
Charles
Lanman was born at Monroe, Michigan, on June 14, 1819, the son of Charles James
Lanman, and the grandson of United States Senator James Lanman.[1] Lanman's
early life included newspaper work as editor of the Monroe Gazette in... | 1819 - 1895 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Ream, Carducius Plantagenet |
Carducius Plantagenet Ream was one of the most important still life painters of the 19th century. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Ream began his artistic career painting in New York and Cincinnati before he moved to Chicago in 1878. It was in Chicago that Ream became the city's leading still life painter and gained national and international recognition for... | 1837 - 1917 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
| Grant, Clement Rollins |
Clement
Rollins Grant was a painter-etcher who was born in 1849 in Freeport, Maine. He
studied in England in 1867, before setting up studios at 112 West Street in
Boston (1882-) and Broadway & 33 rd Street and 80
Washington Square, New York City (1883-) and he rapidly became recognized as a
competent realist who specialized in human genre... | 1849 - 1893 | Anonymous | 03/15/2014 |
| Leslie, Charles Robert |
Charles
Robert Leslie (19 October 1794 – 5 May 1859), was an English genre
painter. Born in London, his parents were American, and when he was five years
of age he returned with them to their native country. They settled in
Philadelphia, where their son was educated and afterwards apprenticed to a
bookseller. He was, however, mainly interested in... | 1794 - 1859 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Thompson, Cephas |
Cephas
Thompson (July 1, 1775 – November 6, 1856) was a successful, self-taught,
early nineteenth-century portrait painter in the United States, who was born,
died, and lived most of his life in Middleborough, Massachusetts.
Thompson's
father fought at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Thompson married Olive Leonard on
March 18, 1802. His son, Cephas... | 1775 - 1856 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Grose, Daniel Charles |
Daniel
Charles Grose (1838–1900) was a prolific
Canadian - American painter of the Hudson River School who was active between
1865 and 1900.
History
Daniel
Charles Grose was born ca. 1838. His parents’
names are not known. Several sources indicate his Uncle was English antiquary
Francis Grose, however, this assertion appears to be
based on... | 1838 - 1900 | Anonymous | 07/28/2012 |
| Johnston, David Claypoole |
David Claypoole Johnston (25 March 1798 – 8 November 1865) was an 19th-century American cartoonist, printmaker, painter and actor from Boston, Massachusetts. He was the first natively trained American to master all the various graphic arts processes of lithography, etching, metal plate engraving, and wood engraving.[1][2]
In 1815 Johnston has... | 1799 - 1865 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Neal, David Dalhoff |
David Dalhoff Neal (October 20, 1838 – May 2, 1915), was an American artist.
Early years
David Dalhoff Neal was born to father Stephen Bryant Neal and
mother Mary (Dalhoff) Neal, on Middlesex Street, in
Lowell, Massachusetts. His grandparents were Stephen Neal, and David Dalhoff and Sally (Bean) Dalhoff
of Canterbury, New Hampshire, Dolhoffs... | 1838 - 1915 | Alexander Lusher | 04/16/2012 |
| Tojetti, Domenico |
Domenico
Tojetti (1807–1892) was an Italian American painter.
Born in
Rocca di Papa, near Rome, the artist frequented the Roman circle of the
Torlonia Princes, providing frescos in the ballroom of Villa Torlonia under the
direction of his teacher, Francesco Coghetti.
The artist
provided also frescoes in the churches of Rome, including the... | 1806 - 1892 | Anonymous | 12/22/2012 |
| Bott, Emil |
Emil Bott was one of Pittsburgh's principal artists of the mid-1800's. He was born in Wurtenburg,
Germany and brought to America by his father Adolf Bott;
they arrived as part of an aristocratic religious cult organized by a certain
Count De Leon. The younger Bott lived in Phillipsburg
and went to school there until he returned to Dusseldorf,... | 1824 - 1908 | Anonymous | 05/18/2012 |
