Artists

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Johnson, Joshuanotes
Joshua Johnson (c.1763-c.1824) was an American biracial painter from the Baltimore area. Johnson, often viewed as the first person of color to make a living as a painter in the United States, is known for his naïve paintings of prominent Maryland residents. Mysterious life It was not until 1939 that the identity of the painter of elite 19th...
1763 - 1824Anonymous05/17/2012
Valdenuit, Thomas Bluget Denotes
Thomas Bludget de Valdenuit (1763 - 1846). Thomas Bludget de Valdenuit was the business partner of Saint Memin, and would often execute the drawings that were later engraved. Their first advertisement for the "celebrated Physiognotrace of Paris" was issued in 1797 in New York.
1763 - 1846Anonymous06/05/2012
Fulton, Robertnotes
Robert Fulton (November 14, 1765 – February 24, 1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. In 1800 he was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to design the Nautilus, which was the first practical submarine in history.[1] Fulton became interested in steamboats in...
1765 - 1815Anonymous05/15/2012
Robertson, Archibaldnotes
ROBERTSON, ARCHIBALD (1765–1835), miniature-painter, born at Monymusk in Scotland on 8 May 1765, was eldest son of William Robertson of Drumnahoy, near Aberdeen, and Jean Ross, his wife; Andrew Robertson [q. v.] was his brother. He was educated at Aberdeen, and received his first instruction in drawing from a deaf-and-dumb artist. In 1786 he...
1765 - 1835Anonymous04/13/2012
Dunlap, Williamnotes
The first historian of the American stage, William Dunlap was a passionate lover of the arts, a gifted painter, a tireless chronicler of his day and a writer of considerable charm. He wrote or adapted more than sixty plays. While subsequent scholarship has found a considerable number of innacuracies in his historical work, his first hand account of...
1766 - 1839Anonymous07/29/2012
Polk, Charles Pealenotes
Charles Peale Polk (March 17, 1767 – May 6, 1822) was a renowned American portrait painter and the nephew of artist Charles Willson Peale. Biography Polk was born in Annapolis, Maryland, to Elizabeth Digby Peale and Robert Polk. At age eight or ten (sources vary on the exact age), after being orphaned, he was sent to Philadelphia to live with...
1767 - 1822Anonymous05/19/2012
Cloriviere, Joseph-Pierre Picot de Limoelan de 1768 - 1826Anonymous05/15/2012
Ames, Ezranotes
Ezra Ames (May 5, 1768 – February 23, 1836) was a popular portrait painter in Albany, New York during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. More than 700 portraits have been attributed to him. He was born in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1768. He moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1790, and married Zipporah Wood in 1794. Some time later he moved...
1768 - 1836Anonymous12/28/2012
Sully, Lawrence 1769 - 1804Anonymous02/20/2012
Doyle, William M. S.notes
William M.S. Doyle was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1769. His father was a British soldier, but Doyle seems to have lived and worked his entire life in Boston. Doyle was a silhouettist, artist of portraits of both full-size and miniature. He worked in silhouette cutting, watercolor, oil and pastel. His silhouettes were beautifully rendered in...
1769 - 1828Anonymous12/14/2012
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