Artists

Born in Rotterdam on August 29,1820, Johan Mengels Culverhouse was one of six children of R. Culverhouse and C. Mengels. Culverhouse made a name for himself as a "candlelight painter," specializing in nocturnal scenes illuminated by moonlight or candlelight in the tradition of seventeenth-century Dutch painting. In the same tradition he also...

Jeremiah Paul ( fl 1795; d nr St Louis, MO, 13 July 1820). American painter. He was a minor yet versatile artist whose career began in Philadelphia, PA, in the 1790s. The son of a Quaker schoolmaster, Paul received his early training from Charles Willson Peale and in 1795 participated in the founding of the Columbianum, Peale's ill-fated attempt to...

John Ramage (1748 – October 24, 1802) was an Irish American artist. Career Ramage was born in Dublin, Ireland. He entered the Dublin School of Artists in 1763 and began his career as a goldsmith and miniaturist. Most of his commissions were earned via portraits. In 1772, he traveled to Halifax, Nova Scotia and subsequently settled in...

Joseph Rusling Meeker (born in Newark, New Jersey, 21 April 1827; died in St. Louis, Missouri, 27 September 1887) was a United States painter. Biography He studied at the National Academy of Design in 1845-46, and exhibited at the American Art Union in 1849-50, the Academy of Design in 1867, and the Boston Art Club in 1877. His studio was at St....

John Rubens Smith (January 23, 1775 London - August 21, 1849 New York City) was a London-born painter, printmaker and art instructor who worked in the United States. Biography Smith was born in England where he first studied art with his father, John Raphael Smith, a mezzotint engraver. He later studied art at the Royal Academy. Smith emigrated...