Artists

NameInfoYearsUpdated by
Date
Brown, Mather 1761 - 1831Anonymous12/14/2012
Russell, Moses B. ca. 1810 - 1884Anonymous10/15/2012
Dixon, Marianotes
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 1896Anonymous05/15/2012
Eglau, Max 1825 -  1900Anonymous05/15/2012
Corne, Michele Felicenotes
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 -  1845Anonymous05/15/2012
Russell, Mrs. Moses B.notes
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 - 1854Anonymous12/23/2012
Sargent, Mary Newbold 1826 - 1906Anonymous12/23/2012
Woodbury, Marcia Oakes 1865 - 1913Alexander Lusher05/15/2012
Roberts, Marynotes
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 - 1755Anonymous10/15/2012
Smith, Mary Russellnotes
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 - 1878Anonymous10/15/2012
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