Artists
| Name | Info | Years
  | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robinson, J.C. | 
The
inscription on the reverse of the National Gallery's Portrait of an Old Man
(1955.11.14) identifies the painter as J. C. Robinson. No biographical
information on Robinson has been discovered. A Joseph C. Robinson who made
daguerreotypes is listed in directories from New York City in 1848 and from
Cincinnati in 1850-1851. Whether he painted... | Born 1848 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 |
| Harnett, William Michael |
William Michael Harnett (August 10, 1848 – October 29, 1892) was an Irish-American painter known for his trompe l'oeil still lifes of ordinary objects.
Early life
Harnett was born in Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland during the time of the potato famine. Shortly after his birth his family emigrated to America, settling in Philadelphia. Becoming a... | 1848 - 1892 | Anonymous | 08/28/2012 |
| Yelland, Raymond | 1848 - 1900 | Anonymous | 12/16/2012 | |
| Rehn, Frank Knox Morton | 1848 - 1914 | Anonymous | 05/20/2012 | |
| Flagg, Charles Noel | 1848 - 1916 | Anonymous | 06/04/2012 | |
| Rosenthal, Toby |
Toby Edward
Rosenthal (15 March 1848 in New Haven, Connecticut – 23 December 1917 in
Munich) was an American painter.
Biography
Moving to
San Francisco with his parents in 1855, he there studied painting under
Fortunato Arriola. In 1865 he went to Munich, where he was a pupil of the Royal
Academy under Strachuber, Karl Raupp and Karl Theodor... | 1848 - 1917 | Anonymous | 05/25/2012 |
| Phelps, William Preston |
William
Preston Phelps (1848–1917), known as "the Painter of the Monadnock"[1], was an American landscape painter born
on the family farm near Chesham, in what is now the Pottersville
section of Dublin, New Hampshire on March 6, 1848 to mother Mary Phelps and
father Jayson Phelps.[2][3]
Early years
"Preston",
as he was known, grew up helping... | 1848 - 1917 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Duveneck, Frank |
Frank
Duveneck (October 9, 1848 – January 3, 1919) was an American figure and
portrait painter.
Youth
Duveneck
was born in Covington, Kentucky, the son of German immigrant Bernard Decker. Decker
died when Frank was only a year old and his widow remarried Joseph Duveneck. By
the age of fifteen Frank had begun the study of art under the tutelage... | 1848 - 1919 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Eldred, Lemuel D. | Lemuel D. Eldred had formal training in Paris but retained in his best pictures a planar, Yankee austerity that seems at times primitive, at times modern. Born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, he exhibited considerable artistic talent as a child. With the support of his parents, he made his way to the Academie Julien and later embarked on a... | 1848 - 1921 | Anonymous | 12/08/2012 |
| Closson, William Baxter Palmer | 1848 - 1926 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
