Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
  | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chamberlain, Samuel | 
Samuel E.
Chamberlain (November 27, 1829–November 10, 1908) was a soldier, painter,
and author who travelled throughout the American Southwest and Mexico. He and
his wife, Mary, had three children.
Early life
Chamberlain
was born in Center Harbor, New Hampshire and soon afterward moved to Boston,
where he spent most of his childhood. In 1844 at... | 1895 - 1975 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Sully, Thomas Wilcocks |
Thomas Wilcocks Sully, born in Philadelphia on January 3, 1811,
was one of six children of the portrait painter Thomas Sully and his wife,
Sarah Annis Sully, who was his brother
Lawrence's widow. The younger Thomas' middle name was probably derived from his
father's patron Benjamin Chew Wilcocks, a leading
Philadelphia merchant. After studying art... | 1811 - 1847 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Bischoff, Franz |
Franz A.
Bischoff (January 14, 1864-February 5, 1929) was an American artist known
primarily for his beautiful China painting, floral paintings and California
landscapes. He was born in Steinschönau, Austria (now known as
Kamenický Šenov in the Czech Republic on January 14, 1864.[1] He
immigrated to the United States as a teenager where he... | 1864 - 1929 | Anonymous | 04/05/2012 |
| Lane, Fitz Hugh |
Fitz Henry
Lane (born Nathaniel Rogers Lane, also known as Fitz Hugh Lane) (December 19,
1804 – August 14, 1865) was an American painter and printmaker of a style
that would later be called Luminism, for its use of
pervasive light.
Biography
Fitz Henry
Lane was born on December 19, 1804, in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Lane was... | 1804 - 1865 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 |
| Quidor, John |
The literary genre painter John Quidor was an enigmatic figure whose career is extremely difficult to trace. Born in 1801 in Tappan, New Jersey, he moved to New York City in 1811. He was apprenticed to the portraitist John Wesley Jarvis from 1818 until 1822, when he successfully sued his teacher for not complying with the terms of his contract. Henry... | 1801 - 1881 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
| Jarvis, John Wesley |
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... | 1780 - 1840 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
| Carlsen, Emil |
Soren
Emil Carlsen (October 19, 1853 – January 2,
1932, New York City, U.S.[2]) was an American
Impressionist painter who emigrated to the United States from Denmark.[3] While
he became known for his still lifes and has been
described as "The American Chardin," he
branched out later in his career and also became known for landscapes... | 1853 - 1932 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Vanderlyn, John |
John
Vanderlyn (October 18, 1775 – September 23, 1852) was an American
neoclassicist painter.
Biography
Vanderlyn
was born at Kingston, New York. He was employed by a print-seller in New York,
and was first instructed in art by Archibald Robinson (1765–1835), a
Scotsman who was afterwards one of the directors of the American Academy of... | 1775 - 1852 | Anonymous | 04/04/2012 |
| Frieseke, Frederick Carl |
Born in
Owosso, Michigan, Frederick Frieseke studied at The Art Institute of Chicago
beginning in 1893, before going East to the Art Students League in New York
City in 1897, and then to Paris in 1898. There, he studied at the Acad6mie
Julian, and with James Abbott McNeill Whistler for a short period at the
Acad6mie Carmen. Frieseke7s earliest... | 1874 - 1939 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Abbey, Edwin Austin |
Edwin
Austin Abbey (April 1, 1852 – August 1, 1911) was an American artist,
illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now
referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known
for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as well
as for his painting of Edward VII's... | 1852 - 1911 | Anonymous | 12/16/2013 |
