Artists

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...

Nathaniel Jocelyn (January 31, 1796 - January 13, 1881) was an American painter. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of a clockmaker and engraver. He trained as a watchmaker, later taking up drawing, engraving, and oil painting. He studied engraving with George Munger around 1813: they published at least one print together under the...

Although born in England in 1780, John Wesley Jarvis was the son of an American mariner who moved his family back to the United States by the mid-1780s. At the end of that decade, the Jarvises settled in Philadelphia, where the artist spent his childhood and began his artistic training. He is known to have frequented the studio of the aging Matthew...

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...

Charles Wesley Jarvis, the second son of the portrait painter John Wesley Jarvis, was born in New York City. His mother died the following year, and he and an older brother, John, were raised by her relatives on Long Island. Jarvis' father spent many years away from home working as an itinerant painter. Jarvis apparently received his earliest...