Artists

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Wall, William Allennotes
William Allen Wall was born to a prominent Quaker family of New Bedford. His father was the master of a Quaker school, ran a hardware store, and promoted cultural activities in the city. Wall seems to have inherited from his father an appreciation of art and may have received instruction from him in watercolor and pencil technique. His father...
1801 - 1885Anonymous05/15/2012
Wall, William Guynotes
William Guy Wall (1792 – 1864) was an American painter of Irish birth. Wall was born in Dublin in 1792 and arrived in New York in 1812. He was already a well trained artist and soon became well known for his sensitive watercolor views of the Hudson River Valley and surroundings. Some of these watercolors were published as engravings by John Hill...
1792 - 1864Anonymous04/21/2012
Ufer, Walternotes
Walter Ufer (July 22, 1876 – August 2, 1936) was an American artist based in Taos, New Mexico. His most notable work focuses on scenes of Native American life, particularly of the Pueblo Indians. Ufer was born of German immigrant parents and raised in Kentucky. After an apprenticeship as a lithographer, he went to Europe where he was a...
1876 - 1936Anonymous12/23/2012
Williams, Williamnotes
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 - 1791Alexander Lusher05/15/2012
Winstanley, Williamnotes
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 - 1806Alexander Lusher05/15/2012
Meucci, Anthony Died 1837Anonymous04/10/2012
Robertson, Archibaldnotes
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 - 1835Anonymous04/13/2012
Stone, Anstiss 1778 - 1807Anonymous05/22/2012
Teakes, Anne Died 1827Anonymous05/14/2012
Andrews, Ambrosenotes
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 - 1870Anonymous01/06/2013
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