Artists
Name
  | Info | Years | Updated by | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preston, James | 1873 - 1962 | Anonymous | 03/31/2012 | |
| Preston, Jessie Goodwin | Born 1880 | Anonymous | 04/20/2012 | |
| Price, Samuel Woodson | 
Samuel
Woodson Price (August 5, 1828 – January 22, 1918) was a portrait artist,
Union general in the American Civil War, and author.
Early life
Price was
born near Nicholasville, Kentucky to Daniel Branch and Elizabeth (Crockett)
Price. He began to show great aptitude for art at an early age, having set up a
studio in a Nicholasville hotel by... | 1828 - 1918 | Anonymous | 04/29/2012 |
| Prior, William Matthew |
William
Matthew Prior, the second son of Matthew Prior and Sarah Bryant Prior of
Duxbury, Massachusetts, was born in Bath, Maine, in 1806. His earliest portrait
is inscribed in the artist's hand, W. M. Prior's first portrait 1823. An
inscription on an 1824 portrait (privately owned in 1992), W. M. Prior, Painter
/ Formerly of Bath / 1824 / 3 piece... | 1806 - 1873 | Anonymous | 04/21/2012 |
| Puthuff, Hanson D. |
Hanson
Duvall Puthuff (August 21, 1875 – May 12, 1972)
was a landscape painter and muralist, born in Waverly, Missouri. Puthuff studied at the Art Institute of Chicago before
moving to Colorado in 1889 to study at University of Denver Art School. He
traveled to Los Angeles in 1903 and for 23 years worked as a commercial artist
painting billboards... | 1875 - 1972 | Anonymous | 05/19/2012 |
| Pyle, Howard |
Howard Pyle
(March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and
author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware,
he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.
During 1894
he began teaching illustration at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and
Industry (now Drexel University), and after... | 1853 - 1911 | Anonymous | 10/13/2012 |
| Quidor, John |
The literary genre painter John Quidor was an enigmatic figure whose career is extremely difficult to trace. Born in 1801 in Tappan, New Jersey, he moved to New York City in 1811. He was apprenticed to the portraitist John Wesley Jarvis from 1818 until 1822, when he successfully sued his teacher for not complying with the terms of his contract. Henry... | 1801 - 1881 | Anonymous | 12/23/2012 |
| Raleigh, Charles S. |
According
to the recollections of his daughter Flora Raleigh Phinney,
Charles Sidney Raleigh produced more than eleven hundred paintings, six hundred
of them of whaling ships. Raleigh had an early introduction to maritime
pursuits. Born in Gloucester, England, in 1831, he left home at the age of ten
and spent the next thirty years as a sailor and... | 1830 - 1925 | Anonymous | 04/09/2012 |
| Ramage, John |
John Ramage (1748 – October 24, 1802) was an Irish
American artist.
Career
Ramage
was born in Dublin, Ireland. He entered the Dublin School of Artists in 1763
and began his career as a goldsmith and miniaturist. Most of his commissions
were earned via portraits. In 1772, he traveled to Halifax, Nova Scotia and
subsequently settled in... | ca. 1748 - 1802 | Anonymous | 10/15/2012 |
| Ramsey, Milne |
Born in Philadelphia in 1847, Milne Ramsey was a still life, landscape, and figure painter who remains best known for his highly realistic his still-life scenes.
Early in his career as an artist, Ramsey studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and then under Leon Bonnat in Paris from 1871-1876. Although he exhibited extensively throughout his... | 1846 - 1915 | Anonymous | 03/04/2013 |
