Artists

Jerome Thompson's genre paintings on rustic themes, which were immensely popular in the late nineteenth century, have received new attention recently.  This revived interest focuses on the unusual distinction of Thompson's landscape settings, which often dominate the pictures' simple foreground scenes of rural work, play or dalliance.  Thompson's...

John Mix Stanley (January 17, 1814 – April 10, 1872) was an artist-explorer, an American painter of landscapes, and Native American portraits and tribal life. Born in the Finger Lakes region of New York, he started painting signs and portraits as a young man, but in 1842 traveled to the American West to paint Native American life. In 1846 he...

Fritz Müller was born in 1814 in Blumenthal, a small town on the Weser River in northern Germany. Trained as a seaman, Müller became a sea captain and lived in neighboring Bremen after 1841. By that time he apparently was married to a native of Hildenbrock, a town near Dusseldorf. In 1848 Müller left Bremen to give instruction in navigational...

The success of Carlin’s colorful and detailed portraits allowed him to campaign successfully for the advanced education of deaf people in the United States. Biography Painter and writer John Carlin, who was profoundly deaf from early infancy, was a ground-breaking advocate for the advancement of deaf and mute people in America. Born in the...