Artists
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Johnson, Joshua | ![]()
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 - 1824 | Anonymous | 05/17/2012 |
Valdenuit, Thomas Bluget De | ![]()
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 - 1846 | Anonymous | 06/05/2012 |
Fulton, Robert | ![]()
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 - 1815 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 |
Robertson, Archibald | ![]()
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 - 1835 | Anonymous | 04/13/2012 |
Dunlap, William | ![]()
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 - 1839 | Anonymous | 07/29/2012 |
Polk, Charles Peale | ![]()
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 - 1822 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
Cloriviere, Joseph-Pierre Picot de Limoelan de | 1768 - 1826 | Anonymous | 05/15/2012 | |
Ames, Ezra | ![]()
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 - 1836 | Anonymous | 12/28/2012 |
Sully, Lawrence | 1769 - 1804 | Anonymous | 02/20/2012 | |
Doyle, William M. S. | ![]() 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 - 1828 | Anonymous | 12/14/2012 |