Artists
| Name | Info
  | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scott, Anna Page | 
Miss Anna
Page Scott's consignment to history will he within the first line of American
Impressionists - those who flourished from about 1890 to 1910. It will also be
favorably noted that she chose to pass on this new approach to seeing and
expression as an instructor with the Mechanics Institute.
Her
philosophy - indeed her passion - was in the... | 1863 - 1925 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Seavey, Julian R. |
Julian Ruggles Seavey was one of the
most prestigious artists to have called Hamilton his home. He was born in
Boston, Massachusetts, on April 24, 1857 and studied art in New York, Paris,
Rome, and Germany before coming to Hamilton in 1879. During the time he lived
here, Seavey was a major force in promoting local art
and culture.
Seavey
was a... | 1857 - 1940 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
| Senior, C.F. |
No other
works by C. F. Senior, who signed his name so prominently and clearly in the
corner of the National Gallery's painting The Sportsman's Dream (1980.62.21),
have ever been discovered. He is believed to have been active in 1881 or later.
A genre painter by the same name is listed in Lipman
and Winchester's Primitive Painters in America as... | Born 1881 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Shannon, Sir James Jebusa |
Sir James
Jebusa Shannon (1862 - 1923), Anglo-American artist, was born in Auburn, New
York, and at the age of eight was taken by his parents to Canada.
When he was
sixteen, he went to England, where he studied at South Kensington, and after
three years won the gold medal for figure painting. His portrait of the Hon.
Horatia Stopford , one of the... | 1862 - 1923 | Anonymous | 12/25/2012 |
| Sharples, James |
James Sharples (1751 or 1752 in Lancashire – 26 February
1811 in New York [1]) was an English portrait painter and pastelist,
who moved to the United States in 1794. He first exhibited at the Royal
Academy in 1779.
History
James was
first intended for the Catholic priesthood, but became an artist instead.[3] Sharples headed a family... | 1751 - 1811 | Anonymous | 04/03/2012 |
| Shattuck, Aaron Draper |
Aaron
Draper Shattuck (1832-1928) was an American painter of the White Mountain
School. He was born in Francestown, New Hampshire. A second-generation artist
affiliated with the Hudson River School, Shattuck differed from most of his
contemporaries in that he never studied abroad, and appears to have spent his
entire life in New... | 1832 - 1928 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Shaw, Joshua |
Joshua Shaw
(1776-1860) was an Anglo-American artist and inventor.[1]
Early life
Shaw was
born in Ellesmere Port, England in 1776 and was orphaned at the age of 7. To
survive he worked for a local farmer as a bird scarer. During the three years
he spent doing this work he discovered his artistic talent and began drawing
the animals he... | 1776 - 1860 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Sheffield, Isaac |
Little is
known about the life of Isaac Sheffield, yet he left a substantial body of
easily recognizable work. His usual subjects, painted during the 1830s and
early 1840s, were sea captains and their families from the bustling Connecticut
port of New London and nearby towns.
The
artist's father, Captain Isaac Sheffield, was a shipmaster who... | 1798 - 1845 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
| Silva, Francis A. |
Francis
Augustus Silva painted coastal, beach, and river scenes that represent the
culmination of the landscape mode, dubbed “luminism”
by modern scholars, characterized by broad, horizontal compositions with low
horizons, delicate color, and crystalline light. Silva was a native of New York
City and the son of a barber. Apprenticed to a sign... | 1835 - 1886 | Anonymous | 04/10/2012 |
| Santry, Daniel |
Daniel
Francois Santry was born in Boston, MA in 1858. He studied with Boulanger and
Lefebvre. He exhibited at the Paris
Salon in 1886 and at the Boston Art Club from 1889 to 1891. The Boston Art Club exhibition records
record his address as 12 West Street, Boston, MA. Painting titles that he exhibited do not
describe White Mountain... | 1858 - 1915 | Anonymous | 05/22/2012 |
