Artists
Name | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
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Murphy, Nelly Littlehale |
Born 1867,
died ca. 1942. Painter, illustrator, and etcher, noted for her watercolor
paintings of landscapes and flowers. Lived and exhibited in the Massachusetts
area. Nellie Littlehale married Herman Daniel Umbstaetter in 1893. In 1916, she married
again, to painter Hermann Dudley Murphy.
| 1867 - 1941 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Mosler, Henry |
Henry Mosler’s highly detailed scenes of peasant life in
the rural villages of the French province of Brittany appealed to his
contemporary American viewers for their material specificity and universal
themes. Mosler was a native of Silesia, Germany (now
Poland), son of a German-Jewish lithographic artist
who brought his family to the United... | 1841 - 1920 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Muller, Fritz |
Fritz Müller was born in 1814 in Blumenthal, a small town on
the Weser River in northern Germany. Trained as a seaman, Müller
became a sea captain and lived in neighboring Bremen after 1841. By that time
he apparently was married to a native of Hildenbrock,
a town near Dusseldorf. In 1848 Müller left
Bremen to give instruction in navigational... | 1814 - 1861 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Morrison, Hal | 1848 - 1927 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
Lehr, Adam | 1853 - 1924 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
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 |
Lennep, Henry John Van |
Henry John
Van Lennep (AC 1837), a noted 19th-century Christian
minister, missionary, writer and educator, was born in Smyrna (present-day
Izmir, Turkey) in 1815. In 1830 he was sent to the United States for his
education. He prepared for college at Mount Pleasant Institute, Amherst, Mass.,
and Hartford (Conn.) Grammar School. After graduating from... | 1815 - 1889 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Lawson, Thomas Bayley |
Thomas Bayley Lawson (January 13, 1807–1888) was an American
painter.
Early life and education
Thomas was
born in Newburyport, Massachusetts on January 13, 1807 to father William Lawson
and mother Frances Lawson. He worked his way up in the dry goods industry,
first as a clerk they up to having his own store at
the age of 21. Also having a... | 1807 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Linen, George | 1802 - 1888 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 | |
Lockwood, Wilton |
Wilton
Lockwood (September 12, 1861–March 21, 1914, age 52), American artist,
was born at Wilton, Connecticut. He was a pupil and an assistant of John
LaFarge, and also studied in Paris, becoming a well-known portrait and flower
painter. He became a member of the Society of American Artists (1898), and of
the Copley Society, Boston, and an... | 1861 - 1914 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |