Artists
| Name | Info | Years | Updated by
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| Brown, Mather | 1761 - 1831 | Anonymous | 12/14/2012 | |
| Russell, Moses B. | ca. 1810 - 1884 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 | |
| Dixon, Maria | ![]()
Maria R. Dixon (fl. 1880-1895 / D. 1896)
Little is known about the circumstances of Maria R. Dixon’s life, including any record of birth or death. As early as 1886, the Complete Catalog of the 62nd Spring Exhibition of the National Academy of Design stated that she had studied at the Art Students League under Charles Yardley Turner.
The... | Died 1896 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Eglau, Max | 1825 - 1900 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
| Corne, Michele Felice | ![]()
Michele Felice Cornè, considered
to be Salem, Massachusetts’ most versatile early nineteenth century
artist, arrived in America from Naples, Italy in 1800. Cornè
worked and lived in Salem from 1800-06 when he moved to Boston. During his
Boston tenure (1807-22) the artist was noted for painting portraits of Boston
ships and naval battles of the... | 1752 - 1845 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
| Russell, Mrs. Moses B. | ![]()
Clarissa Peters was born in Februay 1809 in Andover, Massachusetts. While little is known about her early life, it is believed that she taught at the Blue Hill Academy in Blue Hill, Maine. By 1835 she was working in Boston as a miniaturist and giving instruction. In 1839 she married Moses Baker Russell, who was also a miniaturist and instructor.
Even... | 1809 - 1854 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
| Sargent, Mary Newbold | 1826 - 1906 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 | |
| Woodbury, Marcia Oakes | 1865 - 1913 | Alexander Lusher | 05/15/2012 | |
| Roberts, Mary | ![]()
Mary
Roberts (died 1761) was an American miniaturist active in Charleston, South
Carolina in the 1740s and 1750s. One of the earliest American miniaturists, and
the first woman recorded as working in the medium in the American colonies,[1]
she is also believed to have painted the first watercolor-on-ivory miniature in
the... | Active ca. 1745 - 1755 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 |
| Smith, Mary Russell | ![]()
Mary
Russell Smith was born at Edgehill, close to
Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. She was a true lover of
nature and all the things of nature, wandering the fields and woods near her
childhood home, gathering objects that caught her eye. Smith had much influence
to become an an artist
because all in her family were painters. Her father, Russell, was a... | 1842 - 1878 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 |





